Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years . |
| 2 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 3 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 4 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 5 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 6 | It was circling slowly and very low down , almost touching , it seemed at one point , the summit of Big Allen . |
| 7 | So nearly , it seemed at one point . |
| 8 | Council have provided us with a table which shows that the present value of one pound per annum , payable for the next twenty five years , discounted at four point five percent is fourteen point eight two eight two one pounds , unquote . |
| 9 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |
| 10 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 11 | As Lord Quinton remarked at one point : |
| 12 | And of course , we settled at eight point six two or something ridiculous . |
| 13 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 14 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 16 | Wisely avoiding any rigorous definition , it offered at one point : |
| 17 | He paused at one point on a low hill and cried aloud — perhaps not without a touch of relish for the dramatic , characteristic of his age — ‘ William , dearest little brother ! |
| 18 | Salmon had at one point actually hinted that the great philosopher Henri Bergson might write a preface for the exhibition . |
| 19 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 20 | ‘ If you want the exact quantities , buy my book , ’ he said at one point , one eye in the direction of the BBC publicity department , before adding , as the other swivelled down towards his drink , ‘ if I can be bothered to write it . ’ |
| 21 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 22 | ‘ There is a primitive sexuality lurking here , ’ the narrator , who was very pleased with his voice , said at one point , catching my interest briefly . |
| 23 | ‘ My father would have wanted music with it , ’ she said at one point . |
| 24 | Anna said at one point : " Jill 's not eating . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've also phoned the hospital , ’ he said at one point . |
| 26 | Yeah he did n't really care he was n't too bothered but at least that 's what he said at one point |
| 27 | Perry 's manager Sally Dickinson said at one point Mr Glenn had tried to switch on a light to raise the alarm but had been threatened with violence . |
| 28 | In nineteen seventy nine the grant for trade union education stood at one point six million . |
| 29 | Inflation stayed at four point three per cent last month bringing a significant boost to the economy . |