Example sentences of "[noun prp] pointed [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is an amusing portrait as Ken pointed it out to me , discussing the intricacies of the brushwork as well as the subject matter and its religious significance . ’ |
| 2 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 3 | I had no conscious awareness of the Latin root of the name Hilary until Antonia Byatt pointed it out to me . |
| 4 | This man from Mountain Ash pointed him not only towards the theatre but to his own Olympus of ambition — the University of Oxford of which , in those days , a miner 's son could not even afford to dream . |
| 5 | Niels Bohr pointed it out to him and he had to add a note in proof to deal with the question . |
| 6 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 7 | There was something bookish and appealing about the old lady , but we had no time to get acquainted , for brisk Mary pointed me on my way . |
| 8 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 9 | Stringer pointed them out . |