Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] [art] point " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
2 | After a delicious Chinese dinner , tea and brandy , I was on the point of leaving , but stopped to admire a small framed painting on the wall . |
3 | But just as I was on the point of giving up , the honking bus swerved past me . |
4 | I was on the point of asking the Minister the same question . |
5 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
6 | I was on the point of surrendering when I thought that it would be more dangerous to resume the subject on another occasion ; I also did n't trust my nerve . |
7 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
8 | I was on the point of destroying any chance the Monsters had of breaking into this universe . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I was at a point of crisis , lost , paralysed in the midst of a dense fog . |
11 | Laud altered the internal lay-out of Gloucester Cathedral while dean of that diocese , and as Bishop of London he launched a nationwide appeal in the late 1620s for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London , which was on the point of collapse , entrusting major restoration work to the classical architect , Inigo Jones . |
12 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
13 | You were on the point of getting married , by that time , ? |
14 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
15 | ‘ You were on the point of dying , ’ the voice continued . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She could see she was at the point where the police might be going to do some hard questioning . |
18 | She was on the point of ordering some of her people to hurry over to Acropolis Park to call in person , when one of her more canny officers , who had lost no time in searching the sector , arrived back at the Club . |
19 | She was on the point of thanking him and leaving the floor when he asked . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
22 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
23 | I could see she was on the point of leaving . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Exhausted , mentally and physically , she was on the point of collapse . |
26 | She was on the point of shouting for help . |
27 | She was on the point of saying that interfering could do more harm than good , but , knowing it would be pointless , she kept silent . |
28 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |
29 | She was on the point of fleeing from the building , and was in fact pressed up against the door , listening intently for any sounds outside , when footsteps approached rapidly . |
30 | She was on the point of abandoning the plan when a neighbour , a solicitor who had been advising the magazine , explained that Neville and company were respectable young men really , from decent backgrounds — after all , his father had been a colonel in the Australian Army . |