Example sentences of "[adv] upon his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , all assumptions about external reality are suspended ( ‘ bracketed ’ ) and the theorist focuses entirely upon his field of immediate experience . |
| 2 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 3 | He had a scarlet bedgown on , a kind of soft biretta of dark red wool on his head , from which his long white hair escaped on to the pillow ; his grey beard , grown very long upon his breast … |
| 4 | It did not take long upon his return from Hong Kong for Lugard 's sensitive nose to detect an atmosphere of insubordination in Northern Nigeria . |
| 5 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 6 | ‘ I am fit , ’ he persisted , holding Llewelyn fast by the sleeve , for he was apt to flash away from armoury to store and stable to council chamber disconcertingly upon his universal errand of supervision . |
| 7 | The peace of Europe now rested more heavily than ever upon his ability to control his allies . |
| 8 | It was just after he had come home in 1945 , with his raw imagination still straining to assimilate the only excitements of his life and the strange dust of Italy and Egypt still upon his boots . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , speak of him , ’ said Llewelyn , looking down at the heavy ashen head that lay so still upon his arm . |
| 10 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 11 | The orderly was a Yek , a member of Alexei 's guard , and the disappointment showed clearly upon his features . |
| 12 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 13 | As Alfred Oliver begins to rise , a blunt instrument is smashed forcibly upon his head , followed by more blows incessantly raining down upon the elderly tobacconist . |
| 14 | That slim chance in itself depended wholly upon his persuading Vologsky to fly the Foxbat out of Russia . |
| 15 | He folded his arms across his chest and swung upright magically upon his heels . |
| 16 | Despite Barbarossa 's will and energy , his plans fell apart immediately upon his sudden death ; the tragedy of such an able ruler drowning while on crusade shook the entire system which he strove to uphold . |
| 17 | Immediately upon his retirement , McGuinness earned his civil pilots licence ( 6845 ) on July 12 , 1935 and , on July 24 , 1936 , was granted an instructors licence . |
| 18 | He has decided not to appeal against his conviction and sentence and has pledged to renew his contacts with the PLO immediately upon his release from prison . |
| 19 | Parliament was then dissolved and he did not enter fully upon his duties as clerk of the House of Lords until the assembly of the Short Parliament in April 1640 . |
| 20 | Cornelius counted silently upon his fingers . |
| 21 | He not only subdued the local Britons but appears to have stamped his authority fairly firmly upon his neighbouring kings . |
| 22 | Nor had he ever allowed such doctrines as had influenced him to sit too heavily upon his shoulders . |
| 23 | His first book , Syntactic Structures , published in 1957 , drew heavily upon his earlier unpublished work , The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory . |
| 24 | It may therefore be that 871/1466–7 represents a terminus ante quem for the death of Fahreddin Acemi , provided that the various facts given in the are correct and that Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia followed reasonably closely upon his defeat by Hocazade in the competition , which seems to be the implication in the Shaka'ik . |
| 25 | Now , Jesus has come back again upon his hands , and he Pilate is faced with this tremendous decision . |
| 26 | He could sense , even in the darkness , the enormous wonder of her eyes , fixed unwaveringly upon his face though they saw him only as a bulk solid and still between her and the sky . |