Example sentences of "[subord] i pointed out " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying my best to correct his style without imposing my own upon it , and he seemed genuinely grateful when I pointed out what I thought was a weakness in rhythm , a word to be changed , an image to be further developed , a form to be tightened or relaxed … . |
| 2 | Sir , — Both Mr. Newland and Mr. Chandler have referred to my earlier letter on prescription charge exemptions , when I pointed out that five out of six people do not pay for prescriptions . |
| 3 | Terms of Endearment had her wobbly-eyed and puffy-lipped for days , particularly when I pointed out to her that it was Shirley MacLaine 's performance which won the Oscar , not Debra Winger , for whom Oscars should have been invented . |
| 4 | The crowd was full of pickpockets , as I pointed out to him , and I could have easily said , well , I am sorry Oscar , but you know it is one of the risks here . |
| 5 | It was now called Growth and to get a decision on anything , you had to have a committee meeting , and as I pointed out , if it was going to continue this way , David would lose interest totally . |
| 6 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 7 | As I pointed out above , as the newcomers settled into established communities here and there and one or two at a time , many social relations between incomers and Shetlanders were created from the simple neighbourly needs for advice and help with house repairs and so on . |
| 8 | As I pointed out earlier , regression itself does not cure any particular problem . |
| 9 | Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril . |
| 10 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
| 11 | There are plenty of historical precedents for this , as I pointed out in Chapter 2 . |
| 12 | Furthermore , as participants in the learning/teaching operation , pupils have a role in the evaluation process , as I pointed out earlier . |
| 13 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 14 | As I pointed out last month , ACT surrendered from a holding company is not available for carry-back in the recipient subsidiary . |
| 15 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 16 | The lesson which can be learnt from South Africa regarding professionalism then seems to be that , as I pointed out last month , there is a contradiction in allowing a mercenary spirit to dominate an amateur game . |
| 17 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |
| 18 | As I pointed out there , it seems to be impossible to give a full description of a linguistic variety ( whether it is ‘ standard ’ English , or a dialect , or a style or register ) without making decisions about what the ‘ norms ’ of the variety are , that is , without making decisions about what the speakers agree on as structures that are appropriate for that variety . |
| 19 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent . |
| 20 | There are many examples of video materials produced for language learning use which nevertheless contain authentic features such as spontaneous , unscripted speech , whereas , as I pointed out in describing the content of documentaries , most commentary is carefully scripted and not therefore spontaneous . |
| 21 | As I pointed out in Chapter 4 , there is a very important way in which science proceeds by metaphor , and metaphors can illumine — or they can mislead . |
| 22 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |
| 23 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers . |
| 25 | As I pointed out above , the essence of the ego 's operations was its ability to redeploy and redirect the malleable drives of the id . |
| 26 | Yet , as I pointed out above , it is the origin and causes of these circumstances which really need to be explained — not to mention other , non-individualistic phenomena like religion and cultural tradition which this approach , with its narrow focus on childhood conditioning , usually quite ignores . |
| 27 | One aspect of this which , as I pointed out , is in fact first seen in late Palaeolithic delayed-return hunter-gatherer cultures , is the appearance of the cult of the all-providing and divinely-fecund mother-goddess — the phantasied mother-as-breast . |
| 28 | Such delusions are , as I pointed out earlier , typical of paranoia and are projections . |
| 29 | The leader creates the parental role , the followers play the role of the children , and er , as I pointed out in the , in the lecture when I talked about that , often this is erm , explicitly indicated by symbolic terms , in groups , such as papa , erm , erm , whi which gives you the word pope . |
| 30 | As I pointed out earlier , the phonemic description of This nudist is ambiguous ( at least temporarily ) between This nudist … , |