英语 example sentences with "on the point of"

The train was just on the point of starting when I got to the station.
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When I was on the point of leaving London, it began to snow.
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The boy was on the point of drowning when his father came to his rescue.
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The poor girl was on the point of death.
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The train was on the point of leaving when I got to the station.
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My father was on the point of going out when I came home.
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Bob was on the point of leaving when I rang him up.
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I was on the point of leaving home when a light rain started to fall.
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I was on the point of giving up when I suddenly hit upon the solution.
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The ship was on the point of arriving at her destination.
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The sun was on the point of rising in the east.
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Nakagawa was on the point of going out when I called on him.
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He is on the point of leaving for Canada.
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He is on the point of death.
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She was on the point of leaving.
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She was on the point of going out.
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She was on the point of laughing at the clown's actions.
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The plane was on the point of taking off.
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On the 2nd of September 1792 when the general massacre of the prisoners took place at Paris, M. Sombreuil was on the point of being sacrificed when he was rescued from the hands of the assassins by the heroic conduct of his daughter, though on the dreadful condition that she would drink success to the republic in a goblet of blood!
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Bob was on the point of leaving when I called him.
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We were on the point of leaving when Tom arrived.
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Knuckling under could be described as cooperation, or selling out, depending on the point of view.
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I'm on the point of giving up.
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"The inhabitants of Earth are so primitive and violent, they seem to be on the point of blowing themselves up. Should we save them?" "Nah."
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Ask your own conscience, Sir William, what has prompted you to become a renegade to your political party and opinions, and led you, for what I know, to be on the point of marrying your only daughter to a beggarly Jacobite bankrupt, the inveterate enemy of your family to the boot.
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His former understudy was on the point of filing his retirement papers.
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Tom was on the point of leaving when Mary asked him a question.
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No one is on the point of departure.
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She snatched him up in a whirlwind, exhaling flames from his pierced chest, and impaled him on the point of a rock.
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Indeed, if we are strictly logical on the point of the euphony of language, the Italian dialect, which we deem so soft and liquid, sounds quite harsh, I’m told, in comparison with the labial syllables that the Polynesian islanders use in the South Seas.

Theirs was a nervous household. Jock and Hurry confined indoors for nearly two days had had too little exercise and too many good things to eat. They were quite cross and irrepressible. John had the fidgets. He couldn't even stay in the same room for more than a minute, and he wouldn't even try sitting down for a change. Lucy had had to give up at least a dozen things that required dry weather and sunshine. She seemed to take the rain as something directed particularly against herself by malicious persons. Evelyn, also cross and nervous, was on the point of retiring to her own room to write letters. Just then Dawson Cooper telephoned to know if she cared to take a little walk in the rain and she accepted with alacrity.

The old building seemed to be on the point of collapse.