Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the boat had come round the point they 'd gone up on deck . |
| 2 | Often , it is true , the commissioners drew the new boundaries so as to come to a point in the village where the ancient homestead lay , so that the farmer need not be disturbed from his old home . |
| 3 | He decided to come to the point . |
| 4 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 5 | Vaguely he wondered when Siban was going to come to the point . |
| 6 | I wish to come to the point that the right hon. Gentleman raised specifically about my role in this matter . |
| 7 | Robert decided to come to the point . |
| 8 | To come to the point , what shall we do for the rest of the week ? |
| 9 | Actually it 's come to a point where as Palestinian women in this country whenever we hear the word feminism , it 's very negative to us because we immediately identify it with Western feminism . |
| 10 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 11 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 12 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 13 | I have to confess , I 'm afraid — and now we have come to the point of this long and circumstantial detour , of a sort which I assure you will not recur in these reports — that under the pressure of the circumstances I did a very foolish thing . |
| 14 | NORWICH and Peterborough Pirates came within a point of booking a place in the Heineken Championship semi-finals at Wembley when drawing 6–6 with the Seahawks last night at Humberside . |
| 15 | The next wave came round the point , and the marker vanished . |
| 16 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 17 | I walked further along the edge of the sea , and came to a point where the shore steepened into cliffs and there were large colonies of gulls nesting . |
| 18 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 19 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 20 | Peter was given the keys of the Kingdom when he came to the point of confessing Jesus as the ‘ Messiah , the Son of the living God ’ ( Matt. |
| 21 | I was n't completely heart-free during those years ; sometimes I allowed myself to be fooled that I loved someone , but when it came to the point of saying " yes " to anything final there was always the small honest inner voice which jeered " For life ? |
| 22 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 23 | Even if it came to the point . |
| 24 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 25 | ‘ No , not really , ’ said Constance , and Scarlet felt herself concurring in an age-old belief that , when it came to the point , the closing of ranks took precedence over the wellbeing of the stranger within the gates . |
| 26 | Like irony , if it came to the point , of which there seemed at present a good deal to be borne . |
| 27 | Now it came to the point , however , he sensed a reluctance within himself to confront any member of this self-important establishment on his own ground , far less his own terms . |
| 28 | For when it came to the point , he would probably do what was expected of him , whatever that might be . |
| 29 | And though she had been excited and proud about all the frantic arrangements for her state departure , when it came to the point she had been frightened , and sad at going , though she would not complain . |
| 30 | She was saying things like ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ 'doesn t make sense ’ , hut she never came to the point at all . ’ |