Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 2 | Bernard jumped upon the Virgin and she cracked and flattened . |
| 3 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 4 | Usually , the contract places all the responsibility upon the consultant but it is sometimes difficult to resist accepting the work of expert clients . |
| 5 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 6 | With the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund , the National Portrait Gallery has bought three distinguished portraits of important British sitters in the first half of this year : Robert Walker 's ‘ John Evelyn ’ of 1648 shows the famous diarist with his hand resting upon a skull and it was painted as a wedding portrait for his wife , to accompany a treatise on matrimony . |