Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] upon [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 2 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
| 3 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 4 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 5 | Men and women had fought in the College of Surgeons opposite and British soldiers had fired upon them from the roof of this very hotel . |
| 6 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |