Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew you were somewhere upon the Aletschhorn , but not exactly where . |
| 2 | But the Myrcans were already upon them . |
| 3 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 4 | Its wines were once upon a time combined in the vat with those of Verzenay and it is from the reputation of that great village that Beaumont-sur-Vesle has wrested its misplaced status . |
| 5 | Her hands were still upon him . |
| 6 | It was so well hidden by forest , however , that they were almost upon it before she really had the chance to look . |
| 7 | The emphasis was rather upon providing children with basic skills . |
| 8 | ‘ Reference to the transcript of the judgment in that case however reveals that the decision did not turn on concealment in the shopping bag but was expressly upon the ground that the goods were appropriated when they were taken from the shelves . |
| 9 | Winter was soon upon him . |
| 10 | The afternoon was soon upon us . |
| 11 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 12 | Tuppe turned a fair coin impersonating babies for TV commercials , but his mind was ever upon higher things . |
| 13 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 14 | After the minister 's almost tender observation that ‘ the process of forming a humanistic and harmonious world outlook was now upon us ’ , one could only gape as Reesa Greenberg , from Montreal 's Concordia University , delivered an astonishing plea , entirely in earnest , that museums engage a new art audience in shopping malls . |
| 15 | Having once been the protected member of the family , it was now upon him that responsibilities began to fall . |
| 16 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 17 | The horse was almost upon her and she shut her eyes , the better to see when it had reined to a halt . |
| 18 | He was getting nearer and nearer and was almost upon them . |
| 19 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 20 | When he was back at Thorsbury , he had taken to sleeping in the dressing room now that her time was almost upon her . |
| 21 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 22 | Suddenly the wedding day , which had seemed so far away , was almost upon them . |
| 23 | The storm was almost upon them now . |
| 24 | The Land Rover was almost upon her before she heard the throbbing engine , and she spun round partly in a daze and certainly angered . |
| 25 | Perhaps the time of his Occultation — whatever that might be — was almost upon them . |
| 26 | Rather the focus was again upon expending the money more judiciously . |