Example sentences of "pointed [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas rose and beckoned Corbett over to one of the arrow-slit windows and pointed down to the winding River Lauder . |
| 2 | He pointed down to the messy heap lying on the rock in front of the speeder . |
| 3 | Lewis pointed down to the fast-flowing Cherwell . |
| 4 | He pointed over to the Japanese side . |
| 5 | One finger pointed up to the bright flood-light that was showing me all this . |
| 6 | And he pointed up to the top step . |
| 7 | He studied him a moment , intently , almost fiercely , then pointed up at the overhead camera . |
| 8 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 9 | She turned round and pointed back at the Victorian building with the campanile chimney . |
| 10 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not at all easy , ’ Alain pointed out with the same teasing that was beginning to set Jenna 's teeth on edge . |
| 12 | As Gorbachev himself pointed out to the Central Committee , Russian oil and gas provided most of the energy needs of the other republics . |
| 13 | It would be a good idea , he pointed out to the noble lord , to buy a large freehold estate and divide it into twelve , creating twelve new freeholders who would be entitled to a vote each because of the property qualification ; he hastened to add that he would personally make sure that only suitable Tory adherents were thus enfranchised . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 15 | As Sir Robert Armstrong , former Cabinet Secretary , pointed out in a recent court case , economy of truth and interpretation plays an important part in how the behaviour of MI5 is determined . |
| 16 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's rude to speak French when I ca n't understand what 's going on , ’ Alyssia pointed out in a high , clear voice . |
| 18 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 19 | The leader of the Rally for Democracy and National Unity ( RDUN ) , Ahmed Mokhtar Sidi Baba , pointed out in an open letter to the CMSN that 200 of the country 's 208 mayors were PRDS supporters . |
| 20 | That " No provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , " appeared was a profound weakness J. M. Keynes pointed out in The Economic Consequences of the Peace ( 1919 ) . |
| 21 | As William Hamilton , now at the University of Michigan , pointed out in the 1960s , a male can perpetuate its genes in the next generation , not only by fathering offspring himself , but also by assisting the reproductive efforts of near relations who share many of his genes . |
| 22 | Keynes himself pointed out in the General Theory that workers who would nor be prepared to accept money wage cuts may be prepared to accept real wage reductions caused by price inflation . |
| 23 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 24 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 25 | As Hilary Graham pointed out in the first edition of this book : |
| 26 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |
| 27 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 28 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 29 | As we pointed out in the last chapter , not only is the amount of redistribution to be undertaken by the government a pure value judgement on which different individuals and different political parties will disagree , but there is an inevitable trade-off between the competing objectives of efficiency and equity . |