Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You were on the point of getting married , by that time , ? |
| 13 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You were on the point of dying , ’ the voice continued . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was on the point of thanking him and leaving the floor when he asked . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 20 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 21 | I could see she was on the point of leaving . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Exhausted , mentally and physically , she was on the point of collapse . |
| 24 | She was on the point of shouting for help . |
| 25 | She was on the point of saying that interfering could do more harm than good , but , knowing it would be pointless , she kept silent . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was on the point of telling him about her investigations but it was all so uncertain and there was no point in raising false hopes . |
| 30 | In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus . |