Example sentences of "come [adv] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I may , I 'd like to come straight to the point . |
| 2 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 3 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 4 | He came swiftly to the point . |
| 5 | Li Yuan turned back , frowning , then , trusting to instinct , came directly to the point . |
| 6 | He came quickly to the point . |
| 7 | In turn he came quickly to the point : his venture needed capital and what monies he had were tied up in his house . |
| 8 | He came straight to the point in a rather superior manner , saying that he was a European federalist and that , in his opinion , it did n't matter a tuppeny damn whether industrial investments took place in Germany , France or the UK . |
| 9 | Ignoring the excuse for hysteria , Charity came straight to the point . |
| 10 | Doone arrived very soon after Tremayne had gone and came straight to the point . |
| 11 | Mrs Ridley , however , came straight to the point . |
| 12 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 13 | How could he make his drawings saleable , he asked angrily — and then came abruptly to the point . |
| 14 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 15 | Talking around the subject and not coming directly to the point ; saying in 30 words what might equally be said in 10 . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Maynard thinks you are suffering from post-natal depression , ’ he answered , coming straight to the point . |
| 17 | ‘ Ion Manescu , ’ said Tweed , coming straight to the point . |
| 18 | Always keep coming back to the point from which you start , and try to select other roads to follow . |
| 19 | Er oh yes abortion yes now coming back to the point about abortion . |
| 20 | Now , coming back to the point you were making about them paying your suppliers and such like , erm , all the standard is looking for is that you use proof suppliers , that you get what you want , when you want it . |
| 21 | ‘ In that case , Father , I will come straight to the point . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 23 | ‘ But I would be obliged if you would come straight to the point , Captain Carew . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll come straight to the point , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Let me come straight to the point . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll come straight to the point , Miss . |
| 27 | And , on reflection , she might as well come straight to the point . |
| 28 | Now look everyone , I 'll come straight to the point , a lot of things simply are n't good enough . |
| 29 | But can can I can I just come back to the point that if you were taking the lowest figure , I mean how realistic is it to assume that you could actually hold to that ? |
| 30 | Could I come back to the point about the twenty seven million passengers or some of I 'm not exactly , but I know it 's a lot , erm figure , it 's large number figure , as a num an extra number of cars . |