Example sentences of "the point [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dreamings follow a set path as they alter the topography , leaving their potency , or ‘ Guruwari ’ , at specific points en route , before disappearing back to the non-material world at the point where they came in . |
| 2 | It was memorable for the endless grind in one gully where the snow was waist-deep and we had to swim upwards , and for the point where we emerged on to the easterly ridge with views to Lyngen , and a wind that had bared the slopes and put our teeth on edge . |
| 3 | Brenda is in competition with another speaker ( most of whose words are inaudible ) from then right up to the point where she winds up with her Creole " punchline " turaatid , a mildish curse more or less equivalent to " for god 's sake " . |
| 4 | Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over ( see below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 , for techniques which enable you to do this ) . |
| 5 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 6 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 7 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 8 | Stop over the point where it goes down ? ’ |