Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regains his strength when I sit upon the bed beside him ; he reaches for me , he kisses me violently . |
| 2 | He says that he worked at Emma 's request to produce a record of the deeds which touched upon the honour of her and hers , and the oldest surviving manuscript , which is very close to the author 's original , may be the copy she received : it contains a miniature which shows an ecclesiastic presenting a book to a woman while two figures , presumably her sons Harthacnut and Edward , look on . |
| 3 | Upon the evidence before him the Director has decided that the initiation of criminal proceedings is not warranted . |
| 4 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 5 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 6 | It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults . |
| 7 | Because of this I shall concentrate upon the debate between them and in particular on the abstract theoretical aspects , only touching upon the practical policy implications . |