Example sentences of "pointed to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after a quick glance behind him to check that there was nobody coming in on his blind side from the corridor , he crossed to his locker and pointed to the bulge in its door . |
| 2 | ‘ Sheila is upstairs with a cold , ’ Maggie pointed to the ceiling . |
| 3 | And the way you 're jumping now Erika … wow ! ’ she pointed to the ceiling . |
| 4 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 5 | In doing so he expressed thanks also to CSD staff and pointed to the construction work currently under way on the new European Technology Centre at Royston as a demonstration of our showing confidence in the future and JM 's determined intention to maintain leadership . |
| 6 | The adviser pointed to the documentation LEAs receive about HMI disposition ( DES , 1986 ) in which HMI remain organized in separate subject sections , whereas the managerial implication of their recent curriculum rationale would suggest they would be more satisfactorily arranged in ‘ domain groupings ’ . |
| 7 | Charlotte nodded , turned to the front of the book and pointed to the year of first publication . |
| 8 | Nell nudged him , and pointed to the door behind her . |
| 9 | Still without speaking , the boy pointed to the door on the left . |
| 10 | Leon Kennedy pointed to the door leading to the kitchen . |
| 11 | He pointed to the door . |
| 12 | Philippa pointed to the door in the far wall . |
| 13 | A man who owned a needle made of octiron would never lose his way , since it always pointed to the Hub of the discworld , being acutely sensitive to the disc 's magical field , it would also miraculously dam his socks . |
| 14 | Athelstan pointed to the feet of the corpses . |
| 15 | The CBI has recently pointed out how important inward investment is to this country , and pointed to the success of this Government in attracting it — a success not assisted by some in the Labour movement , who call it ’ alien ’ . |
| 16 | I pointed to the field Waters had told us was out of bounds . |
| 17 | Prentice pointed to the top of the fence . |
| 18 | This pointed to the existence of the unicorn but now she was not sure whether it was a friend or an enemy , a beast with magical properties that only women could see or a creature to be feared and avoided . |
| 19 | Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1979 ) pointed to the manufacturing employment growth of the ‘ smallest ’ regions , such as East Anglia , as evidence of the displacement of growth from urban to rural areas . |
| 20 | Yet evolutionary science also pointed to the precariousness of moral progress-how it could so easily slip back into animal chaos . |
| 21 | In the campaign , Kennedy pointed to the dangers of a growing recession and had pledged to " move America forward " . |
| 22 | She laughed and pointed to the can in his hand . |
| 23 | If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence . |
| 24 | She pointed to the debris of their meal . |
| 25 | His dress , his speech , his looks , everything pointed to the word . |
| 26 | She pointed to the word button . |
| 27 | Escorted to-his own room , Manescu looked at the guard and pointed to the changes which had taken place in his absence . |
| 28 | as if anticipating a question from Blanche , the SOCO pointed to the screw joining the two blades . |
| 29 | He pointed to the centre of the window . |
| 30 | My own research with young people in Edinburgh and Lothian Region has placed such problems squarely in the context of adult violence to children in public places and pointed to the frequency with which young people go around in gangs or carry weapons usually as a response — however ill-judged — to crimes they suffer . |