Sentence examples for told upon from inspiring English sources

"Welcome to Shanghai, Dick," the police detective hero of Tom Bradby's first novel is told, upon witnessing his first beheading.

The woman became ill and was told upon her release from the hospital to seek follow-up care.

We had come to Iran to cover the election, but we were told upon arrival that there would be a compulsory program.

In the past week, Ai has returned with a full-throated howl to Twitter, despite being told upon his release from jail that he is barred from making political statements.

Awolou Sossa, 23, a student from Benin, in West Africa, who came to New York City last year to study civil engineering, said he had been told upon his arrival to avoid eye contact on the train.

Corbyn's campaign condemned the decision as wrong "both legally and democratically", warning that it threatened to disenfranchise members who were explicitly told upon joining the party that they would have a vote in any leadership election.

Under dynamic conditions, the maximum permissible inclination of the drill resulting from the deformation tells upon the accuracy of the hole.

The most intense and arduous journey makes a more salient and dramatic story to tell upon its completion.

DS: Gary Baseman is another local LA character, you can tell upon meeting him he has an alternate, very active reality going on in his head.

But if trade is at least a big part of the cause, then presumably this will eventually tell upon public opinion and trade will move up voters' priority lists.

I could tell upon encountering it that this was a species yet to be described by science -- so I took some leaf samples for DNA analysis with the expectation that I would someday soon be naming a new species.