Example sentences of "point [prep] putting " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was getting to the point of putting it behind me , but when I conceived everything changed . |
| 3 | The point implicit in the hon. Gentleman 's question is : what is the point of putting up the top rate of tax if one raises less revenue ? |
| 4 | why should they put in those sub-headings you what 's the point of putting passion , what 's the point of your sub-heading loving and potion . |
| 5 | And er we ought to make a very definite point of putting our heads together perhaps , what do you think , about early March or something like that . |
| 6 | ‘ No point in putting on the lights if we 're only passing through , ’ said the Headmaster , switching on a torch . |
| 7 | He 'll be expecting that , whereas there 's no point in putting him on his guard about the other matter until we 've more to go on . ’ |
| 8 | The daunting difficulty is underlined again by one of our front pages of last week : there were people from IBM 's labs discussing this holographic polymer they had developed , which promised unimaginably high capacity and low cost data storage : right , well if that 's coming along , there 's not much point in putting much more investment into rotating magnetic memory systems — disks to you and me , DASD to IBMers — is there : better put AdStar onto a care-and-maintenance basis , perhaps even sell it . |
| 9 | He was sure of it but there was no point in putting on pressure until he had more to go on . |
| 10 | Leith at that moment saw no point in putting her in a position where she would have to defend him — which she would . |
| 11 | There would be no point in putting reserve goalkeeper Ian Ironside on the substitutes ’ bench as a precaution . |
| 12 | Well because there 's no point in putting this window back until I 've fixed these onto the thing , I 've got ta take the glass out to put this in then slide the glass back on |
| 13 | No , but there 's no point in putting it in in erm apples because you grate your dried |
| 14 | What 's the point in putting the hydrogen gas |
| 15 | Even if you block the straight line between two points by putting a cut in the paper , the ink will get around the corner . |