Example sentences of "come to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to come to the point . |
| 2 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 3 | Vaguely he wondered when Siban was going to come to the point . |
| 4 | I wish to come to the point that the right hon. Gentleman raised specifically about my role in this matter . |
| 5 | Robert decided to come to the point . |
| 6 | To come to the point , what shall we do for the rest of the week ? |
| 7 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 8 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 9 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 10 | I have to confess , I 'm afraid — and now we have come to the point of this long and circumstantial detour , of a sort which I assure you will not recur in these reports — that under the pressure of the circumstances I did a very foolish thing . |
| 11 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 12 | Peter was given the keys of the Kingdom when he came to the point of confessing Jesus as the ‘ Messiah , the Son of the living God ’ ( Matt. |
| 13 | I was n't completely heart-free during those years ; sometimes I allowed myself to be fooled that I loved someone , but when it came to the point of saying " yes " to anything final there was always the small honest inner voice which jeered " For life ? |
| 14 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 15 | Even if it came to the point . |
| 16 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 17 | ‘ No , not really , ’ said Constance , and Scarlet felt herself concurring in an age-old belief that , when it came to the point , the closing of ranks took precedence over the wellbeing of the stranger within the gates . |
| 18 | Like irony , if it came to the point , of which there seemed at present a good deal to be borne . |
| 19 | Now it came to the point , however , he sensed a reluctance within himself to confront any member of this self-important establishment on his own ground , far less his own terms . |
| 20 | For when it came to the point , he would probably do what was expected of him , whatever that might be . |
| 21 | And though she had been excited and proud about all the frantic arrangements for her state departure , when it came to the point she had been frightened , and sad at going , though she would not complain . |
| 22 | She was saying things like ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ 'doesn t make sense ’ , hut she never came to the point at all . ’ |
| 23 | But if it came to the point where he thought he had nothing to lose , I do n't know what he would do . ’ |
| 24 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 25 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 26 | Would you mind coming to the point ? ’ |
| 27 | Then , coming to the point where he said ‘ But , my fliends , all that has changed … ’ , he suddenly straightened up , his left hand swung up to remove the moustache , the mandarin cap and the pigtail , while his right hand peeled off the Chinese jacket and gown . |
| 28 | ‘ Dearest Edouard , ’ she said at last , finally coming to the point . |
| 29 | She rattled on breathlessly , perhaps encouraged , Dexter thought , by a desire to delay Blanche coming to the point of the meeting . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe , ’ said Mrs Puri , coming to the point , ‘ but they are not from good families . |