Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [prep] [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 2 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 3 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I hope I have n't held you up for too long , ’ she apologised quickly , realising that he could well have an appointment , and that he was on the point of leaving . |
| 5 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
| 6 | So anyway I said , oh well get some change and I was on the point of sa I said to Margaret shall we jump in the ruddy car and we 'll get back . |
| 7 | A viewer with the same problem wrote to me , saying her doctor refused to give her any more and she was on the point of suicide . |
| 8 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 9 | There was no message from the police captain , and he was on the point of leaving again for the City of Dreams when a rickshaw , its linen sunscreens pulled down around the passenger seat , rushed into the square and stopped by him , blocking his path . |
| 10 | The sounds made him go a little faster , but progress was slow and difficult and he was near the point of exhaustion . |
| 11 | So he was born de Lisle , and it was at the point that he was in military school that he added the Rouget , you know , like having a double barrelled name , |
| 12 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 13 | The young man belched and blinked his eyes as if he was on the point of falling asleep . |
| 14 | He was a thin , brown man with a brass stud at the neck of his striped shirt and a sad expression as if he were on the point of tears . |
| 15 | But just as I was on the point of giving up , the honking bus swerved past me . |
| 16 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 17 | ‘ You know so much about farming , ’ Theodora said as they were on the point of parting . |
| 18 | Am I all right , as they were on the point of asking ? |
| 19 | Courses closely comparable to ours in scale and content were advocated by the authors of the Bullock Report as a future development in 1975 — when ours were on the point of being discontinued . |