Example sentences of "point i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you see the point I am trying to make ? |
| 2 | The point I am trying to make from all this is that to win a karate bout needs two things — your ability to defeat the opponent and the referee panel 's ability to recognise your superior performance . |
| 3 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 4 | At this point I shall return to Hirsch , who argues that there can be no intrinsic understanding of literature , only a variety of understandings : ‘ Aesthetic categories are intrinsic to aesthetic inquiries , but not to the nature of literary work . |
| 5 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 6 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 7 | What do you mean ? she said At that point I gave up . |
| 8 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 9 | At this point I heard a gale of raucous laughter . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There is one more point I should like to make . |
| 11 | He also clearly makes a point I had never considered before : that Bosola , the eternal outsider and masterless man , is not simply some rogue assassin but the author 's moral spokesman . |
| 12 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 13 | I know because I 've tried it as well , and I would say it was a large contributing factor to a breakdown of understanding , because at this point I was watching the deterioration of the relationship between Tony DeFries and David . |
| 14 | At that point I abandoned the meeting and tried to find out what was happening . |
| 15 | At this crucial point I was thrown a lifeline by , of all people , the Opposition Spokesman on Social Services , Michael Meacher . |
| 16 | The point I am making is that , from the viewpoint of scholarship , fundamentalism is dead , but it wo n't lie down at the grass roots level . |
| 17 | It proves to what a point I am brought . ’ |
| 18 | The point I was making was that Miller , fictional character or not , has suffered enough without being visited by an authorial malevolence . |
| 19 | At this point I fell asleep . |
| 20 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 21 | Up to that point I was very happy . |
| 22 | At this point I could no longer contain my curiosity and rushed through to see what he looked like as he said it , thinking of all the teachers I know who would cherish these rare kind words . |
| 23 | ‘ The underlying point I am seeking to make is that the debate on which decisions on devolution must be taken has not yet been concluded , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 24 | ‘ It kept coming through the sun roof and at one point I heard the roof caving in , ’ he said from his hospital bed . |
| 25 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 26 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 27 | At one point I had pretty yellow fungi growing from the floor , which was right above a store room to the cafe downstairs ; needless to say , I never ate there . |
| 28 | Again , the point I want to make here is that the perceptual , cognitive understanding of the expression of emotions in non-verbal ways from pictures , cards , etc. is very different from the expressions of the materials with one 's own hands or face or body ( p. 320 ) . |
| 29 | Surprisingly too , many psychologists have also … failed to recognize the point I am about to make . |
| 30 | The non-trivial point I am making is that the difference is not in the presence of an additional reason for action , but in the existence of a pre-emptive reason . |