Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring , he was full of himself , sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour . |
| 2 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 3 | Republic of Ireland .. 3 Northern Ireland ..... 0 THE celebrations were on the point of becoming a full-blown ceilidh when the score was corrected : Spain had not won 2-1 in Budapest , but the Hungarians had equalised eight minutes from time , and a bizarre set of circumstances could yet deny the Republic their first appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 4 | The home itself was pillaged often , and by 1957 both Mary and Terry were on the point of collapse after months existing on half-nights of sleep . |
| 5 | At last they decided to withdraw from the square and were on the point of departure when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of tough-looking soldiers , helmeted and armed . |
| 6 | Time and again , sons or hired hands were sent vaulting over the dry stone walls to Low Birk Hatt when it became obvious that the Hauxwells were on the point of dropping with exhaustion as they struggled to finish their haymaking or sheep shearing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Just when their creditors were on the point of issuing writs the Tecks left England for the continent , insolvent and heavily in debt . |
| 9 | George and Elizabeth were on the point of going to bed when they heard a knock on the door . |
| 10 | He still gripped her by her upper arms which , however , were on the point of rejecting this persistent , warning masculine pressure . |
| 11 | Longing for revolution , they convinced themselves that the peasantry were on the point of a mighty revolt . |
| 12 | Her breasts were on the point of turning into roses . |
| 13 | You were on the point of getting married , by that time , ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Drilling operations had meanwhile been shifted to the south , and oil was finally struck in Masjid-i-Suleiman on 26 May 1908 , just as D'Arcy and Burmah were on the point of giving up . |
| 16 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
| 17 | ‘ You know so much about farming , ’ Theodora said as they were on the point of parting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You were on the point of dying , ’ the voice continued . |
| 21 | The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing . |
| 22 | Am I all right , as they were on the point of asking ? |
| 23 | They were on the point of going under the Archway of Wakefield when Athelstan caught sight of the great brown bear chained to the wall in the corner near Bell Tower . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 26 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 27 | These had a privately run deposit-insurance scheme that was on the point of going bust , following the failure in October of the two-branch Heritage Loan and Investment of Providence . |
| 28 | My friend , a widow , was on the point of saying if he could n't attend , neither could she , when it occurred to me that I had no engagements for the weekend in question . |
| 29 | As the Fifties ended he was on the point of multiplying millions by opening the first Playboy Club , in Chicago , where the girls , not the customers , were dressed as rabbits . |
| 30 | Just as Emily was on the point of replying , the hammering stopped and Mr Zamoyski emerged from the entrance to his workshop . |