Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 2 | He inflicted the first wound to Taylor 's hopes by conceding a penalty equaliser against the Dutch at Wembley and was also criticised for goals by Poland and Norway which threw away the points that would by now have left qualification a formality . |
| 3 | And Newcastle 's manager rammed home the point by insisting that no British club could afford Tyneside 's new Gazza , 20-year-old midfield talent Lee Clark . |
| 4 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 5 | Newport were understrength , but Gloucester were on full power as they piled up the points . |
| 6 | The appeals raised originally a point of interpretation of the statutory provisions governing the valuation of benefits for the purpose of income tax under Schedule E , in particular , the interpretation and application to the facts found of section 63(1) and ( 2 ) of the Finance Act 1976 . |
| 7 | But North himself , on the point of abandoning the operation , begging to be moved on ‘ to other things ’ , made plain the point of everything that had gone before : ‘ Wd very much like to give RR two hostages that he can take credit for . ’ |
| 8 | Aberdeen , the league leaders , are at home to Dundee United and Alex Smith , their manager , is contemplating ‘ at least one change ’ after last week 's defeat by Celtic which took away the points advantage they held over Rangers . |
| 9 | My opinion of Joey B. went up a point or two . |
| 10 | Tate saw clearly the point at issue : ‘ Mr Eliot 's critics are a little less able each year to see the poetry for Westminster Abbey ; the wood is all trees ’ . |
| 11 | A Second interim report ( Cmd. 6794 ) , published in April 1946 spelled out the points in greater detail , but additionally referred to the community aspects of settlement . |
| 12 | Solowka remembers band discussions turning into arguments because Charman took almost every point as a personal attack on himself . |
| 13 | Finally , at just after ten o'clock by Rock Hardy , Stanley came back from the pub and Emily totted up the points . |
| 14 | Winston Churchill , that most remarkable of Home Secretaries , summed up the point with characteristic eloquence : |
| 15 | I feel you summed up the points we discussed very fairly and produced two worthwhile and coherent papers . |
| 16 | A mistake by Peacock let in Atkinson for the goal which wrapped up the points for Villa . |
| 17 | Eddie Freeman gave Easington the lead , with Graham Curry cancelling that out , but Easington surged into the lead early in the second half with goals by Freeman , Micky Skirving and Allan Martin , and even though Jimmy Lagan pulled one back , Skirving wrapped up the points . |
| 18 | Two fine headed goals from Paul Smith and Scott Leitch wrapped up the points in a hard-fought derby match at Central Park which saw Cowdenbeath 's Billy Herd ordered off early in the second half for a foul on Neale Cooper . |
| 19 | Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third . |
| 20 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 21 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |