Example sentences of "immediately [verb] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |
| 2 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 3 | The car park was immediately closed upon advice from Darlington council , which carried out the tests in line with national safety standards . |
| 4 | The car park was immediately closed upon advice from Darlington Council , which carried out the tests in line with national safety standards . |
| 5 | [ The Plowden Report had a profound effect on the way both professionals and parents viewed primary education , but few of its practical recommendations were immediately acted upon . |
| 6 | The services of Mr C.C. Hunte , policeman/peacemaker and deviser of penalties , former West Indies opening batsman , and career worker for mankind , were immediately called upon . |
| 7 | He explained : ‘ It is all too easy to make some apparently innocent , well-intentioned remark which is immediately seized upon by the press who love to hear guest speakers make a complete fool of themselves . |
| 8 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 9 | The stand we were in was wooden and when a few of the fans tried to light up their cigs. they were immediately pounced upon by the attendants to cordially desist . |
| 10 | When Matthew Broderick , from War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off , miraculously survived a head-on car crash in 1989 in which two women , in the other car , died , the finger of suspicion immediately fell upon him as being the cause of the fatal accident . |
| 11 | Having commented upon the gentleness and generosity of the Caribs , he immediately reflected upon their vulnerability and upon how easily they might be enslaved . |
| 12 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |