Example sentences of "[adv] upon he " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 2 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 3 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 4 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 5 | Winter was soon upon him . |
| 6 | Her hands were still upon him . |
| 7 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 8 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 9 | If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever . |
| 10 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 11 | Both God and nature have combined to bestow lavishly upon him the gift of perfect happiness . |
| 12 | Having once been the protected member of the family , it was now upon him that responsibilities began to fall . |
| 13 | Few mistakes are admitted to , and events which do n't reflect well upon him , like the highly dramatic resignations of the Navy Minister and chief of Naval Staff in protest at his decision to scrap aircraft carriers , are dismissed in two illuminating sentences . |
| 14 | She turned hard upon him , doubly enraged — at his folly and at his interference with the joy of the hunt . |
| 15 | His thoughts receded , he was now approaching the breech of the hill , the path became flatter and less weary with the crest almost upon him . |
| 16 | The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur . |
| 17 | Aethelbald is alleged in a ninth-century list of benefactions from Gloucester abbey to have slain the kinsman of a Mercian abbess ( CS 535 : S 1782 ) and his eventual assassination at Seckington , near Tamworth , by his own bodyguard in 757 ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) has tended to reflect unfavourably upon him . |
| 18 | We fell joyfully upon him , Masha devouring him with kisses . |
| 19 | Mozart was no doubt a good Catholic , but his religion did not weigh heavily upon him . |
| 20 | He had failed to win the emperor 's attention , and his chronic money problems were weighing heavily upon him . |
| 21 | Time was weighing heavily upon him . |
| 22 | But circumstances had pressed , of late , most sorely upon him . |
| 23 | It was when ‘ the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him ’ that ‘ he tore a lion asunder as one tears a kid ’ ( Judg. 14:6 ) . |