Example sentences of "pointed [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something bookish and appealing about the old lady , but we had no time to get acquainted , for brisk Mary pointed me on my way . |
| 2 | People cheerfully pointed me in the direction of Barry 's , Harry 's , Carry 's and , in one case , even the Black Dolmen . |
| 3 | It was dominated by a huge television in one corner and she pointed me towards an armchair , covered in worn corduroy , which had once been dark red . |
| 4 | They pointed me towards writers I had never even heard of , let alone read . |
| 5 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 6 | She pointed them out to Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 7 | I really wanted to help them out and pointed them in the direction of Red Rhino and it was kind of their idea to put them out on Reception . |
| 8 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 9 | He now took a pair of sunglasses from his shirt pocket and pointed them at me . |
| 10 | But towards the end of the journey , he began to recognize familiar places , and in great excitement pointed them out to Rose . |
| 11 | Stringer pointed them out . |
| 12 | Groups of strikers assembled and disbanded , led their trooper escorts on pointless all-night drives in caravans , painted broom handles to resemble gun barrels and pointed them out of windows , and generally tried to confuse the authorities with multiple feints and parries . |
| 13 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who pointed them towards Dakar and the timers seized from two Libyan intelligence agents . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever Maureen thinks , Ron Barron will keep things going in the direction her father pointed them . ’ |
| 15 | Sullenly he pointed them out . |
| 16 | He pointed them out to Grimma . |
| 17 | ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 18 | Not wishing to drop them in a crater , he obligingly pointed them towards the road to Belleek . |
| 19 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
| 20 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 21 | And I pointed you sir to the fact that in that county at least they found that to further contain it it helped to name districts . |
| 22 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 23 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 24 | Then my buddy pointed him out as the crazy maniac making the calls . |
| 25 | Even Michael Bridges , the Echo man ( Kegan had leaned over to Briant and pointed him out as soon as he came in ) , sat sprawled in seeming boredom in his chair at the end of the front row . |
| 26 | He apparently showed an interest in Wetherby on Thursday night — pointed him out to Meryl Armitage and asked his name . |
| 27 | His commuter companions were impressed by this sudden fame , and Dad told me delightedly how they pointed him out to each other on Platform Two . |
| 28 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 29 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 30 | She knew Archie Cousins was a loafer whose sharp nose pointed him at everything except honest toil . |