Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 2 | His grandparents usually chip in at this point . |
| 3 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 4 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 5 | A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point . |
| 6 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 7 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 8 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 9 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 10 | It all seems to come back to that point of cost-benefit . |
| 11 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 12 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 13 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 14 | It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins . |
| 15 | I could quite reasonably give up at this point , I think . |
| 16 | Chairman I would like to pick up on this point about the identification of sites . |
| 17 | The first author shows quite clearly that the idea of inference or mental perception is connected to an impression of " afterness " or subsequence , as are all the other uses with to which we have seen up to this point . |
| 18 | The book was certainly the most thorough document of a country made up to that point in time , and received accolades from all quarters . |
| 19 | He said the alternative view was to take the standpoint of a fully-developed person looking back to some point marking the moment of creation . |
| 20 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 21 | I mean we noticed that with the referrals and everything but it was purely that you had n't got down to that point to ask for them . |
| 22 | This lonely spot , at nearly 1700 feet , I call Birkdale Summit in the absence of an official name , the long valley of Birkdale going down from this point to Keld . |
| 23 | Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away . |
| 24 | What I have offered up to this point , however , is only a partial description and explanation of the mutual , unconscious relatedness between workers and managers . |
| 25 | I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them |
| 26 | Their first attempt , however , was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point . |
| 27 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 28 | The strength of the association between the mortality and morbidity was given by the slope of this line , indicating how much sickness goes up for each point increase in the death rate . |
| 29 | I shall build up to this point using a specific example which is the other main theme of this chapter . |
| 30 | Moving moving on from that point , it does seems to me that the policy clearly is more restrictive than P P G seven and arguably in some respects it 's more restrictive than greenbelt . |