Example sentences of "i point " in BNC.
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| 1 | I point at the photo of a pie and chips . |
| 2 | I point to the form , then add , ‘ What time does the day train go on Thursday ? ’ |
| 3 | But the rally is going ahead , I point out , and the police have it on their duty-roster . |
| 4 | Defensively , I point out that she was very attractive as Cleopatra with Morecambe and Wise . |
| 5 | As I point out in chapter 12 , there are exciting possibilities for initiatives in knowledge about language , particularly in the areas of social and developmental linguistics . |
| 6 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 7 | Now , when I say hello to the audience before we begin recording the show , I point to the chairs , and say : ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here , and Michael Caine sat here , and Oliver Reed was all along there … . ’ |
| 8 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 9 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 10 | Without impugning the motives of any believer in this , I point out that it reeks of a vile and dangerous racism . |
| 11 | I point out the empty ‘ shells ’ of others on the grassy cliff-top , and explain that this is the work of the local great black-backed gulls , who seem to enjoy cracking open these echinoderms ( which are really modified starfish ) to get at the small amount of ‘ meat ’ inside . |
| 12 | When I point out that this hardly squares with his claim to be a ‘ fucking dedicated policeman ’ , Coetzee says he ca n't help it . |
| 13 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has starred in what can be collectively described as a ‘ crap ’ of movies since his twelve-year-old big Hollywood hits 10 and Arthur , his own personal jerky series of ‘ Carry On ’ movies — films that in my mind have no titles and are n't short enough — it seems only fair that I point out to Moore that he has made a ‘ crap ’ of movies since his twelve-yearold big Hollywood hits and I ca n't remember their titles . |
| 14 | I point out some nice pink stocks and he does this huge shudder and goes ‘ Uuuuuugggh . ’ |
| 15 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 16 | Only modern Rome , anyway ; Constanza wo n't admit that when I point it out . |
| 17 | Still looking at section 3(1) , I point out that ‘ any later assumption of a right to it ’ ( that is , a right to the property ) amounts to an appropriation of a right to it and that normally ‘ a right to it ’ means a right to the property and not a right in it . ’ |
| 18 | I point . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , I point to an object in my immediate surroundings and say " this chair " , then , unless I am deliberately lying or trying to mislead , I indicate an implicit assumption on my part that there is something out there , something external to my act of pointing , which I take to be a chair . |
| 20 | Miserably I point out that Cymbeline has not behaved well . |
| 21 | Innocently I point out that we 'd better return the key to him , since if we leave the flat unattended he could say we stole his best furniture . |
| 22 | I point out that I 'm paying for my half , but they both ignore this . |
| 23 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 24 | I point at the dressing table with a finger like a ruler . |
| 25 | I point to her buttons , she closes them with shaking hands . |
| 26 | I point out to the hon. Gentleman that the 1981 Act is now steadily being made more effective , that more resources are being made available every year and that parents are becoming more and more aware of their rights under that Act . |
| 27 | Before the Minister gives us , once again , the sterile old argument about the number of empty council properties , I point out that the number of empty council properties is far fewer than the number of empty properties owned by the Government . |
| 28 | I respect my hon. Friend 's strong personal feelings , but I point out to him that Parliament has expressed its view very strongly . |
| 29 | I point it out because it is hidden away in a lot of business about freedom of information and other issues about which he is so keen . |
| 30 | The Opposition bitterly opposed the right to buy council houses when it was first introduced ; now they are in favour of it — or , perhaps , not quite in favour , for they become very cross when I point out what a huge success it has been . |