Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] upon a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 2 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 3 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 4 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 5 | His renunciation also rested upon a dubious legal sentence of 1202 , a punitive measure against King John by Philip Augustus . |
| 6 | They began to meet people in their travelling , and actually came upon a gravelled road that some lord of Ralarth had laid down decades or centuries ago , the wagon ruts deep in it . |