Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [det] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 2 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 3 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 4 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 5 | I hope at this point your self-image has improved dramatically . |
| 6 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 7 | I guess at that point DEA assumed I had jumped the reservation and was feeding information to Pan Am . |
| 8 | I decided at that point to begin using the detachment technique ( see p.26 ) . |
| 9 | would have been a a a drover-wood I suppose at some point . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I suppose at this point we retire and leave the gentlemen to their port . |
| 11 | I felt at that point if I did n't tell her she was going to find out anyway . |
| 12 | I 'm not entirely clear what I do at this point . |
| 13 | Well it depends how you want to deal with it , I mean erm , this , the , the , the I think it was just my idea last year of , of sort of erm sharing some of the load I think at that point and hoping that someone could perhaps take over , erm , this just says the following should be elected , A , Chair , B , Secretary and C , Treasurer , but erm |
| 14 | I think at this point it would be a good idea to tell you what my own personal beliefs are — and please remember that I am not attempting to convert anyone else to them . |
| 15 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |
| 16 | At an early stage the County Council rejected all the inner northern routes , despite the recommendation of the County Surveyor and the County Planning Officer , I have at this point said that the Harrogate Borough Council erm h had also recommended that the inner northern routes be retained for investigation . |
| 17 | I have at this point tried to bring in some preliminary notions of stress and prominence without giving a full explanation ; by this stage in the course it is important to be getting familiar with the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables , and the nature of ‘ schwa ’ , but the subject of stress is such a large one that I have felt it best to leave its main treatment until later . |
| 18 | The claim to descent from Ida , nevertheless , suggests that it was a Bernician family which intervened at this point . |
| 19 | You tried at that point . |
| 20 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 21 | Do you feel at this point in time that it 's all been worth it ? |
| 22 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 23 | Early on , after Waite 's capture , when he was still separated by a wall from the others , Anderson , who had at that point had spent 2,000 days in captivity , writes of Waite , ‘ I knew he was brave , risking his life for us . |
| 24 | What do you mean ? she said At that point I gave up . |
| 25 | It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards . |
| 26 | She decides at this point in the story , that nothing is too bad for those people who have tried to humiliate her throughout her life . |
| 27 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 28 | Half of those who retired at that point or subsequently were effectively forced into early retirement by ill health or the lack of job opportunities . |
| 29 | I 'm delighted and I 'm sure you 'll be delighted to hear the advice of the business convenor that we suspend at this point in time . |
| 30 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |