Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | She decided not to push the point any further , could see he had switched off . |
| 2 | I decided not press the point . |
| 3 | City boss Brian Horton said : ‘ I thought we did enough to deserve a point on our second half display . |
| 4 | He did not mention the point missed by the hon. Member for Dewsbury , that disconnections are now at a low level . |
| 5 | Mungo did not press the point . |
| 6 | The Emperor , to his credit , did not press the point , but presented Gambo with a bag of gold for his part in the battle and quietly departed . |
| 7 | Deuce did not press the point . |
| 8 | Asmar looked at him soberly , and Coleman did not press the point . |
| 9 | Harry did not reply and Ockleton did not press the point . |
| 10 | The appellants did not take the point that this transaction was not a sale . |
| 11 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 12 | He did not see the point of it . |
| 13 | Piers did n't say anything , but he did n't press the point with her . |
| 14 | I did n't see the point , I said . |
| 15 | Besides , the trend on the national newspapers was away from staff photographers and to contract work and I really did n't see the point in moving my family to London without any job security . ’ |
| 16 | However , I decided to dispense with the hood ; I did n't see the point of hiding my face . |
| 17 | Now , she did n't see the point . |
| 18 | NME news editor Chris Hutchin interviewed Elvis ' manager and found that Colonel Tom Parker had yet to see any of his charge 's films : ‘ I went to see Kid Galahad but the theatre was full an ’ I did n't see the point of taking a seat that could be sold to a paying customer . ’ |
| 19 | He also faced the increasingly urgent problem posed by the slow progress of the scholarly revision of the general catalogue of printed books , which , seriously disrupted by the war , had only reached a point early in the letter D. When reporting the matter to the trustees in 1953 , Oldman had to recommend one of two courses : either , having attempted to secure more staff , to press on with revision , or ( as was vigorously advocated by F. C. Francis , the senior of the two keepers serving under Oldman ) , to terminate the work and then reprint volumes photolithographically together with the unrevised remainder , but with accessions from 1905 to 1955 intercalated . |
| 20 | Although this was not the first case in which this view had been taken , it was the first in which an appellate court had squarely addressed the point . |
| 21 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 22 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 23 | Doyle smiled scornfully , as though she had somehow missed the point . |
| 24 | He had thus made the point , while accepting the royal candidate , that the power of confirmation ( which was increasingly insisted upon ) lay with the pope alone . |
| 25 | On the other hand , they had also reached a point where they were using sufficient quantities that injecting , which requires less heroin for a ‘ better hit ’ , became ‘ attractive ’ enough to overcome any anxieties they had previously felt . |
| 26 | Now he had nearly reached the point where darting mist roared to almost touch his head , like stabbing , jabbing tendrils of motion . |
| 27 | The green paper declared that the growth of road transport in the Community had nearly reached the point where the environment could no longer sustain it . |
| 28 | She had refused to disrupt an already smoothly running system and he had n't pressed the point . |
| 29 | Ellwood shook his head , seeming to suggest that Annie had n't understood the point . |
| 30 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |