Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [num] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years . |
| 2 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 3 | It was the psychedelic 60s and drugs were beginning to their part in the Arts Lab , and I recall at one point David lecturing the audience on the dangers of taking drugs . ’ |
| 4 | I think at one point that the cash flow figure of fourteen point three million appeared . |
| 5 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 6 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 8 | ‘ My father would have wanted music with it , ’ she said at one point . |
| 9 | And of course , we settled at eight point six two or something ridiculous . |
| 10 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 11 | erm yo I mean he says at one point , as a positive statement , he thinks , that he bend , he 's bending his nature out of its natural course |
| 12 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 13 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 14 | It was circling slowly and very low down , almost touching , it seemed at one point , the summit of Big Allen . |
| 15 | So nearly , it seemed at one point . |
| 16 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 17 | He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 19 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 20 | Wisely avoiding any rigorous definition , it offered at one point : |
| 21 | Eccleshall himself implicitly acknowledges this problem , for he notes at one point that Thatcherism 's characteristics — ‘ its mixture of abrasively theoretical market economics , uncompromising anti-egalitarianism and fervent patriotism ’ — are hardly ‘ the ingredients of what Oakeshottians judge to be authentic Conservatism ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I had 24 shock treatments when I was 17 , ’ he notes at one point . |
| 23 | ‘ If you want the exact quantities , buy my book , ’ he said at one point , one eye in the direction of the BBC publicity department , before adding , as the other swivelled down towards his drink , ‘ if I can be bothered to write it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've also phoned the hospital , ’ he said at one point . |
| 25 | Yeah he did n't really care he was n't too bothered but at least that 's what he said at one point |
| 26 | He paused at one point on a low hill and cried aloud — perhaps not without a touch of relish for the dramatic , characteristic of his age — ‘ William , dearest little brother ! |
| 27 | As Geoffrey le Bel said in the preamble to one of his charters , ‘ whatever happens at one point of time will scarcely ever reach the next generation in a reliable and true account unless it is committed to writing . ’ |