Example sentences of "get to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's gotten to the point where if a song is not real predictable radio fare then it 's regarded as left-field . |
| 2 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 3 | The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned . |
| 4 | He had got to the point , now , of sometimes saying , ‘ Yes . |
| 5 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 6 | That situation in general had got to the point where it was n't conducive to creativity any more . |
| 7 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 8 | It 's got to the point now where everyone thinks everything we do is just deliberate shit , us causing a disturbance . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 10 | Blinking politely at the assembled masses hanging on his every syllable , the poodle-headed astronomer and Friend Of Freddie swiftly got to the point of his keynote address to the CMJ Music Marathon . |
| 11 | IBM has got to the point where it has baptised the concept of the RS/6000 Cluster Service Offering , but a twist in DEC 's plan is to enable alien workstations to be included in the cluster — according to Electronic News , it conceives of creating clusters of Alpha-based workstations within one to two years and then to move on to embracing alien machines , with the benefit that stations could be used as stand-alone units when no parallel work was running . |
| 12 | There were two problems back then : first , collectors tend to have an inflated idea of the value of their work , and second , since they feared the IRS ( Inland Revenue Service ) would question any evaluation they gave , they overvalued everything , The IRS got to the point where , because of the abuses , it was prepared to recommend to Congress the abolition of the deduction for donations of works of art . |
| 13 | And he was looking forward again : " I do n't feel I 've ever got to the point I aim at and I do n't think I ever will , but I would like to feel that I was getting a little nearer to it each time . " |
| 14 | Now where it goes negative a negative value I do n't think we 'd be interested in that , that means that the car 's got to the point where you have to pay someone to take it away . |
| 15 | She had got to the point where , if Lili had announced a passion for sun-kissed babies , she would have said she found them over-rated . |
| 16 | Well , I 'd like to do , that we do do that , I mean , we have I think made some submissions in the past , but I think it 's now quite clear that the fears that we 've expressed in this committee over the years , are well founded , and we 've got to the point , where the whole er project for the special needs people , is is going is going to be very vulnerable . |
| 17 | It 's got to the point where manager Lennie Lawrence must wake up at times wondering which big game is next . |
| 18 | I 've got to the point now , I kick him and tell him to turn over , he turns it over and it 's just as bad as before . |
| 19 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 20 | Oh , well I think we 've got to the point have n't we , where these are probably cheaper than the bolts . |
| 21 | erm I think the general pressure on tropical governments now from the environmental lobby has got to the point where they are n't they 're beginning to realise the problems . |
| 22 | Get to the point , tell people what they need to know and do it with as much style , clarity and substance as possible . |
| 23 | ‘ Get to the point ca n't you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Get to the point ! ’ |
| 25 | Get to the point simply and directly . |
| 26 | ‘ They were about the same ’ , she writes , ‘ as the principles used in painting — get to the point as directly as you can ; never use a big word if a little one will do ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Get to the point , will you ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Then , get to the point . ’ |
| 29 | The lower they go , the closer they get to the point where even a small amount of cheating could upset the balance alarmingly . |
| 30 | You just get to the point where you are sick and tired of the life that you are living . |