Example sentences of "she [was/were] on [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was on the point of thanking him and leaving the floor when he asked . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 5 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 6 | I could see she was on the point of leaving . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Exhausted , mentally and physically , she was on the point of collapse . |
| 9 | She was on the point of shouting for help . |
| 10 | She was on the point of saying that interfering could do more harm than good , but , knowing it would be pointless , she kept silent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was on the point of saying something but changed her mind . |
| 17 | She was on the point of reaching over to pick up the coffee-pot and obligingly fill one of the spare cups for him . |
| 18 | She was on the point of leaving again when Jim Lewis erupted back into the room . |
| 19 | She was on the point of marrying another man , so they could only meet in secret . |
| 20 | She was on the point of collapse already . |