Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [art] right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
| 2 | If we look at management er procedures Could ask the question but I 'm , the mo more cynical of you will er not answer in the right way , what are management procedures ? |
| 3 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 4 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |
| 5 | It is like a large hemming stitch and must not show on the right side ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 6 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 7 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 8 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 9 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 10 | He told us to fill in this form , saying we had not gone through the right channels . ’ |
| 11 | You can not rely on the right questions coming to you on the spur of the moment . |
| 12 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 13 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 14 | Er , you 're right , erm I ca n't think of the right word er |
| 15 | ‘ I meant , well , I just meant that — I du n no , I just ca n't think of the right words . |
| 16 | They did n't think in the right way . |
| 17 | You did n't look in the right place did you ? |
| 18 | You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often . |
| 19 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 20 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |