In 1762, at the presentation of his portrait of Peter III, who had just ascended the throne, Rokotov was made a court painter.
We looked north-west at the valley we had just ascended, a beautiful, snow-filled trough which I knew now to be full of hidden danger.
I was born in 1989 as Yugoslavia's unravelling edged towards critical mass; Slobodan Milošević had just ascended to power, prompting my parents to start packing their bags.
Look how big that is!" He had just ascended the spiral ramp to the concourse level and caught a glimpse of the "home-run feature," as the Red Grooms sculpture has come to be known.
Robert, who is forty-six, had just ascended the eastern face of the Cheung Kong, which is nine hundred and twenty-eight feet high, using nothing but his feet and his hands.
There's a warren of spaces, including a terrace overlooking the heaving part of Long Street from which you've just ascended, and myriad lounges, some of them tucked away (don't miss the back terrace).
In a matter of minutes everyone has pulled the climbing skins off their skis, and we follow our guide back down the 2,000 feet we have just ascended.
This air-commuter - Mr. Henry is his name-has just ascended to the roof-deck of his Catskill home an is about to "rev up" his motor when he notices that Junior has left his gyrocycle right in the way of everything.
This is the landscape facing Michael Dowling Michael Dowling, who just ascended the top spot at the Northeast's largest hospital network, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.
If you feel plane bumping up, then acknowledge that you just ascended.
