Example sentences of "pointed [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas rose and beckoned Corbett over to one of the arrow-slit windows and pointed down to the winding River Lauder . |
| 2 | He pointed down to the messy heap lying on the rock in front of the speeder . |
| 3 | Lewis pointed down to the fast-flowing Cherwell . |
| 4 | The fellow pointed down to the corner of the Mercery and Lawrence Street . |
| 5 | He pointed over to the Japanese side . |
| 6 | He pointed over to the ring of trees . |
| 7 | Keep your elbow pointed up to the ceiling to stretch correctly — notice how the waist is quite clearly defined with this exercise . |
| 8 | One finger pointed up to the bright flood-light that was showing me all this . |
| 9 | And he pointed up to the top step . |
| 10 | Suddenly Thomas pointed up to the sky . |
| 11 | She pointed up to the curtains on the front window . |
| 12 | He pointed back to the office block , and Cardiff could see the indistinct blurs of the other faces in reception , looking out . |
| 13 | Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) . |
| 14 | Even at the point of entry there was overcrowding , and in 1786 an officer pointed out to a correspondent that ‘ the ship is allowed but two midshipmen , and we have sixteen gentlemen on board who are rated able seamen & captain 's servants ’ . |
| 15 | You 're very fortunate , as I pointed out to a group yesterday . |
| 16 | He pointed out to the magistrates that the people of the parish had previously been law-abiding , that riotous demonstrations and the destruction of property were rare , and even now were believed by many of the farmers and traders ( and the poor themselves ) to have been the work of gypsies . |
| 17 | At one point he corrected her too easily made assumption and then pointed out to the therapist that he had shown his feelings : his voice had risen because her remarks had made him angry . |
| 18 | It would be a good idea , he pointed out to the noble lord , to buy a large freehold estate and divide it into twelve , creating twelve new freeholders who would be entitled to a vote each because of the property qualification ; he hastened to add that he would personally make sure that only suitable Tory adherents were thus enfranchised . |
| 19 | In many areas even organised crime went unaffected , and the seasonal recreations of local people could pose a major threat only to be dealt with by the wholesale swearing-in of special constables , as the magistrates pointed out to the Home Secretary in 1835 : |
| 20 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 21 | ‘ I pointed out to the ref that the boy had done nothing to warrant a caution at that stage . |
| 22 | Several times in the two meetings observed lawyer A pointed out to the children that they could seek alternative advice , and that they need not be embarrassed to do so . |
| 23 | Dr Edgar Munhill , the Frick 's Curator , pointed out to The Art Newspaper , ‘ We have been doing exhibitions here for almost twenty years around aspects of our own collection , often not well known to the general public . |
| 24 | Sol Wagner , an American sexologist , lecturing in Britain in 1977 , referred to the British as " obsessed " with sex ; and to some extent this is true , due as he pointed out to the double-thinking of those of us who retain inhibitions and hang-ups born of earlier years and the mixture of fascination and revulsion connected with sex which lies so deep in many of us . |
| 25 | As Gorbachev himself pointed out to the Central Committee , Russian oil and gas provided most of the energy needs of the other republics . |
| 26 | The pupil pointed out to the teacher and the class that she felt that there is pervasive racial prejudice in the school , which the teachers failed to acknowledge . |
| 27 | Indeed I pointed out to the Court that one year earlier , at the time of the National Bank Dispute , the Bank of Ireland were at pains to separate the Bank Assistant 's Claim from the main Claim which they had always stated was debarred by the P.E.S.P. |
| 28 | We pointed out to the companies that they let the contracts , and could therefore require trade union representation as a condition of awarding them . |
| 29 | While Developments was being finalized there were , as Edwin Kerr pointed out to the institutions , other longer-term models being discussed . |