Example sentences of "[noun prp] pointed out [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It belonged to me all the same , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke pointed out with the authority of a monarch claiming a sturgeon . |
| 3 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 4 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 5 | Selwyn Lloyd pointed out in the House of Commons , during a debate on the operations in the Oman , that Britain had to honour two types of obligation . |
| 6 | As Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. pointed out during the course of argument , there is a difference between saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant ’ and saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection such a tenant can possess . ’ |
| 7 | In case such arguments failed , the king also reminded the commons frequently that the war had been undertaken with their consent and that this consent had from time to time been renewed , as Sir William Thorp pointed out in the parliament of 1348 . |
| 8 | As the battle bus pulled out of the crowd , Mr Major pointed out of the window and said : ‘ There , that 's what we 're up against . |
| 9 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 10 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |