Example sentences of "point when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 2 | In their famous study of kinship in Bethnal Green , Young and Willmott made this very point when they said , in their introduction , |
| 3 | Hillman and Whalley indeed make this point when they refer to central area pedestrian precincts as |
| 4 | Mittler and Mittler ( 1982 ) make a similar point when they argue that a clear distinction should be drawn between the concepts of ‘ partnership ’ and ‘ involvement ’ . |
| 5 | MURTON can close the gap at the top of the Northern League to only one point when they play at Langley Park tonight . |
| 6 | Such students graduate at the point when they meet the regulations for the specific award , which is not necessarily July in any particular year . |
| 7 | In evidence before the Committee on Physical Deterioration , Dr T. F. Young from Liverpool described how , particularly at the point when they started work , young people ‘ throw off all parental authority … get to congregating about the street corners at night … become what we call ‘ corner boys ’ ’ , and get drunken habits ' . |
| 8 | The children did n't go for this much , since a meeting usually became necessary just at the point when they needed clean clothes , juice , a hug , or someone to play with and so on . |
| 9 | But the pollsters have a point when they complain that at election time they are like a doctor asked to make a diagnosis over the telephone . |
| 10 | It seems worth drawing the attention of conservation bodies to this point when they consider the acquisition and management of woodland nature reserves . |
| 11 | There came a point when we had to advise our client that she did n't proceed further . |
| 12 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 13 | It is worth remembering this point when we come to consider some responses to the Report . |
| 14 | We return to this point when we consider the subject of information agreements later . |
| 15 | That 's a point when we gon na get this fucking car off of John ? |
| 16 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
| 17 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 18 | One incident stands out in particular as a point when I felt there was little more I could do : |
| 19 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 20 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |
| 21 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 22 | So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’ |
| 23 | That was the point when I decided not to use my 20s for a ‘ proper ’ career . |
| 24 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 25 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 26 | there 's no point when you die , there 's no point in me |
| 27 | ‘ And yet when you were sick and hungry , wanderin' through the streets , you had reached the point when you thought life was not worth livin' . |
| 28 | ‘ I still think the great moments in acting are when a theatre audience lets out a big laugh at just the point when you want them to laugh — or when you can hear a pin drop because you 've got them totally captivated in the drama . ’ |
| 29 | There must come a point when you realize that all these confidences are piling up , useless , in the store room , like the possessions elderly people sometimes keep for no purpose . |
| 30 | But there comes a point when you have to move on from there . |