Example sentences of "point [prep] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no message from the police captain , and he was on the point of leaving again for the City of Dreams when a rickshaw , its linen sunscreens pulled down around the passenger seat , rushed into the square and stopped by him , blocking his path . |
| 2 | Even after they moved , and that 's ten years ago now , she would make a point of coming up for the children 's party , at Christmas . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In our position , there is no point in sitting back for a draw . ’ |
| 5 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |