Example sentences of "upon [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 2 | She does not , apparently , test her spellings by saying them as they look , but imposes upon them the correct pronunciation . |
| 3 | Ministers will urge upon them the favourite concept of ‘ balance , ’ and good marks will be earned by not playing the game too hard . |
| 4 | The Police Force of London was very anti-Jewish : but special measures were taken by Sir Samuel Hoare to enforce upon them the dire necessity of pampering the Israelites . |
| 5 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 6 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 8 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 9 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |