Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] make a point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Chairman I want to make a point relative , very quick point relative to the northern bypass so Mr said that officers are proceeding with the preparation of possible routes , will you undertake that er members be er , er advised of er these discussions before it reaches committee stage ? |
| 2 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 3 | Then , as her face fell , he added , ‘ However , since Kirsty 's been staying with me I 've made a point of packing up just after five . ’ |
| 4 | So I have made a point of looking you up . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have to make a point at every stage of care of saying ‘ if you ca n't understand me , tell me . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , I wanted to make a point on the disciplinary side , which is as senior proctor the side of things I find myself thinking most about , and this is going back to the question of policing and whether it 's appropriate to talk in those terms . |
| 7 | We also yes I must remind you that we have read the papers so I do n't necessarily want to go through it word by word line by line er but obviously when you want to make a point you will refer back to those papers but do n't you must assume that we have read them and that everybody else has read them . |
| 8 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 9 | If you want to make a point if something 's you want to make more emphasis than others then there is a hierarchy to these colours on this transmitted light . |
| 10 | She 'd made a point of spending every spare minute she could with her . |
| 11 | Right you 've made a point now . |
| 12 | ‘ You trying to make a point ? ’ she snarled . |
| 13 | Why , do you think she wanted to make a point of she might have at work for |
| 14 | You need to make a point of setting yourself tasks to do in order to keep on top line and to improve your flying . |
| 15 | Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’ |
| 16 | And we have made a point of saying in this press release that children can individually enter this as well . |
| 17 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 18 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 19 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 20 | First he threw down his training bib , then he tried to make a point to coaches Dino Zoff and Giancarlo Oddi . |
| 21 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
| 22 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 23 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |
| 24 | He had made a point of reading some of his articles last night , and the man knew what he was writing about . |
| 25 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 26 | He saw Sidacai nod , as if he was satisfied that he had made a point . |
| 27 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 28 | He had no qualms about dropping players he thought were off form , but would talk to them individually to encourage them , or if he wanted to make a point arising from their game . |