Translation of "on the point of" to Spanish

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Dictionary translations for "on the point of"

on the point of preposition

a punto de (+ gerund)

The train was on the point of leaving when I got to the station.

El tren estaba a punto de irse cuando llegué a la estación.

al borde de

Contexts with "on the point of"

The train was on the point of leaving when I got to the station. El tren estaba a punto de irse cuando llegué a la estación.

I was on the point of leaving home when a light rain started to fall. Estaba a punto de dejar la casa cuando empezó a caer un ligera lluvia .

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! El 2 de septiembre de 1792, cuando tuvo lugar en París la masacre general de los prisioneros, M. Sombreuil estaba a punto de ser ejecutado cuando fue rescatado de las manos de sus asesinos por la heroica conducta de su hija, ¡aunque con la terrible condición de que ella bebería por el éxito de la república en una copa de sangre!

Can it be that you don't have a bit of creativity, to the point of always inventing the same apology? ¿Será que usted no tiene una pizca de la creatividad, hasta el punto de inventar la misma disculpa de siempre?

If anyone was to ask what the point of the story is, I really don't know. Si alguien fuera a preguntar cuál es el objetivo de la historia, realmente no lo sé.

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