Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was dancing and singing at various points — the chatter and whir of castanets , the hoarse yelps and anguished arias of flamenco , the pistol-like crepitations of zapateado , the sharp slow hand-claps of café patrons calling waiters . |
| 2 | Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case . |
| 3 | A narrow card subject , occupying the full height of the field of view was placed in position and measured at various points from left to right , using three different exposures . |
| 4 | G. Sankoff 's ( 1980a ) collection of papers on syntactic variation in both Montreal French and the Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea employs a very wide range of approaches and includes at various points discussions of important theoretical and practical issues . |
| 5 | Manpower was used to haul the wagons round the city , following an established route and stopping at certain points or stations , where audiences would be assembled to watch the performances . |
| 6 | The custom of ‘ beating the bounds ’ by taking children around the parish boundary and beating at significant points , in order that the children should remember them , is a reflection of this . |