Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [det] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 2 | You want to abort at that point , oh yeah retry 'll do . |
| 3 | If the honourable gentleman looks at the official report tomorrow , he will see that the h leader of the house has dealt with that point . |
| 4 | Any comments please any thoughts on anything anybody wants to say at this point ? |
| 5 | Well e erm I do n't want to dwell on this point but it it may have implications wider than just where these boundaries are . |
| 6 | The railways and roads were also made to focus on this point , making the area even more attractive for new industries . |
| 7 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 8 | He decided that school was not somewhere he would like to go at this point because he looked pretty bad . |
| 9 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 10 | She was persuaded to concede on that point , then proposed to share everything with the production team — until it was pointed out that if just one penny , or a single biscuit was diverted in that direction , and it became known , we 'd be lynched . |
| 11 | The separate recordings can then be viewed after the event and decisions about how to edit taken at that point . |
| 12 | And I would like to say at this point I was very disappointed that we did n't have any other conservatives with us in the afternoon . |
| 13 | You could treat the fish with ‘ dips ’ out of the pond , but all you can hope to do at this point is to control the spread of secondary infections , such as ulcers and fungus and bacterial infections . |
| 14 | If , therefore , 17 September 680 fell in Aethelred 's sixth year , Aethelred began to reign at some point after 17 September 674 and before the anniversary of that date in 675 . |
| 15 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 16 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 17 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 18 | Maggie would have left at that point , but as her bed was in the kitchen she could n't get into it until after he 'd left the room . |
| 19 | He then proceeded to elaborate on that point . |
| 20 | Dimly , she thought that was n't the romantic kind of thing she 'd envisioned saying at this point , but what did it matter ? |
| 21 | The chief magistrate kept referring to this point and my opponent could not answer it . |
| 22 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 23 | It is an essential part of grieving that they be allowed to fall at some point , without restraint , if the healing process is to start . |
| 24 | He is not the only person to have responded on this point , which just shows how powerful anecdotes can be as memory aids . |
| 25 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 26 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 27 | First simply lift the boat into the water but do n't let go at this point because you 'll find that the boat will drift faster than you can swim after it , then you lift the daggerboard here , halfway down because you 'll be sailing off wind . |
| 28 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 29 | In March 1991 , although Aquino confirmed that Imelda Marcos continued to be banned from the country , she suggested that she would be allowed to return at some point in order to face corruption charges . |
| 30 | I must prepare to say at this point that I have a special report on the Colville Road area to er er committee , not just on the now but I think we probably need to have further consultation with regard to the needs in that area . |