"go upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It means "to rely on" or "to use as a basis for action or decision." Example: Before making a decision, we should go upon the data and analysis provided by the research team.
He is not to go upon trial.
The problem with "When We Go Upon the Sea" is not that it's yet another derisive play about George W. Bush.
In 1862, with many citizens fighting, noncitizens were needed to (in an Illinois congressman's words) "go upon these wild lands" to increase the nation's wealth.
It is not clear where the men will go upon their release since their families live in areas where sex offenders are not permitted.
Mr. Lincoln was urged to go upon the platform, but having declined doing so elsewhere, he felt it his duty to treat all alike, and, therefore, did not go".
This summer, he sold the other 40percenttoto Walmac International, a prominent stud farm in Lexington, Ky., where Favorite Trick will go upon the conclusion of his racing career.
20-23: "All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
Another early corporate book, "Gabardine in Peace and War," reworked Napoleon's purported dictum: "An army goes upon its belly, but its skin must be covered".
For example: "and the flood was forty days upon the earth"; "the ark went upon the face of the waters". You have the simple verbs "was" and "went" in that little report.
But she was beautiful enough to her little dog, who cowered under her dress, frightened, when she went upon the scaffold, and who lay down beside her headless body when all her earthly sorrows were over.
A dead animal was reported in the vicinity but was gone upon officers' arrival at 12 10 p.m. on Dec. 23.
