Example sentences of "pointed [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | As Gorbachev himself pointed out to the Central Committee , Russian oil and gas provided most of the energy needs of the other republics . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |