Example sentences of "in upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 2 | War , repression and increasing poverty have driven ethnic groups in upon themselves . |
| 3 | A window that turns in upon the pane , |
| 4 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 5 | Three faces lit up , beaming in upon what they thought was a crucial fact . |
| 6 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 7 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |
| 8 | The telephone bell broke in upon her musing , and she left the sunshine to answer it . |
| 9 | The surf as it rolls in upon the beach ; sea ; wave ; a billow. 2 . |
| 10 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 11 | They had always relied on speed and skill in horsemanship , which enabled them to dash in upon their adversaries , fire off a salvo from their short but deadly bows , and then retreat before any reprisal . |
| 12 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 13 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 14 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
| 15 | TO FIND A BODY , VEHICLE , FOR THAT STRONG SENSE OF MAN 'S DOUBLE-BEING WHICH MUST AT TIMES COME IN UPON AND OVERWHELM THE MIND OF EVERY THINKING CREATURE . |
| 16 | Should the network of stones be damaged the fine balance of energies could collapse in upon itself and consume Ulthuan in a holocaust of raw power , turning it into another Realm of Chaos which the Dark Elves would return to claim for their Chaos Gods at last . |
| 17 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 18 | Louisburg was captured again , and by the beginning of 1759 British forces could close in upon the centre of New France in the St. Lawrence valley . |
| 19 | The incident was one of many domestic crises which crowded in upon the royal couple in those tumultuous early days . |
| 20 | He was walking beside Mosley as the bystanders pressed in upon them . |
| 21 | Led by the brutish Patrick , Lord Ruthven , a gang burst in upon Mary , her ladies and Rizzio at supper in one of her private inner rooms in Holyrood . |
| 22 | As a result he was , as he said , forced in upon himself . |
| 23 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 24 | The full force of her loss came in upon her now , and she gave a shout of anguish . |
| 25 | When they reached Sukarno 's residence , Sjahrir burst in upon them to say that Japan was sueing for peace . |
| 26 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 27 | Joshua broke in upon Eb 's reflections . |
| 28 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 29 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 30 | A deep and brooding sense of shame and failure led him to turn in upon himself , withdraw from both his wife and his son , and ultimately during 1920 and 1921 to engage in nightly excursions , disappearances designated by Sartre as " attempted suicides " . |