Example sentences of "he [verb] at [num] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 2 | erm yo I mean he says at one point , as a positive statement , he thinks , that he bend , he 's bending his nature out of its natural course |
| 3 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 4 | He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) . |
| 5 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 6 | Eccleshall himself implicitly acknowledges this problem , for he notes at one point that Thatcherism 's characteristics — ‘ its mixture of abrasively theoretical market economics , uncompromising anti-egalitarianism and fervent patriotism ’ — are hardly ‘ the ingredients of what Oakeshottians judge to be authentic Conservatism ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I had 24 shock treatments when I was 17 , ’ he notes at one point . |
| 8 | ‘ If you want the exact quantities , buy my book , ’ he said at one point , one eye in the direction of the BBC publicity department , before adding , as the other swivelled down towards his drink , ‘ if I can be bothered to write it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've also phoned the hospital , ’ he said at one point . |
| 10 | Yeah he did n't really care he was n't too bothered but at least that 's what he said at one point |
| 11 | He paused at one point on a low hill and cried aloud — perhaps not without a touch of relish for the dramatic , characteristic of his age — ‘ William , dearest little brother ! |