Example sentences of "and on [art] point " in BNC.

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1 With respect , Mr. Speaker , and on a point of order .
2 However , in the winter of 1659 she became desperately ill and on the point of death .
3 Richard Baxter and his friend , Dr. William Bates narrowly escaped arrest when they were due to meet to pray for the recovery of a woman who was ill and on the point of death .
4 I am 46 , going grey and on the point of total collapse .
5 Catching his brother 's warning frown and on the point of saying ‘ remembered , ’ Richard smoothly changed course .
6 William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest .
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