Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing signs has clear right hemisphere involvement ( Lubert , 1975 ; McKeever et al. , 1976 ; Manning et al. , 1977 ; Poizner and Lane , 1978 ; Poizner , Battison and Lane , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | It looks just right for a helicopter man . |
| 3 | A pass of hit and hope bounced just right for Nicholson . |
| 4 | On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly . |
| 5 | Well every bonfire night it was the time for most people to get rid of the fleas and the mattresses and er and bonfire night we used to come just right . |
| 6 | It 's easy to play — fat , but not too fat — and the question now is just getting it to sound exactly right . |
| 7 | Life is rarely as it should be and , given that Bowe ran scared of him , the WBC belt fits just right . |
| 8 | So the way it 's given erm t to previous prices decline geometrically right . |
| 9 | Why did it feel so right to have Luke stroke his hand along the curve of her thigh , to feel it slide up over her hip and dip into the hollow of her waist before moving on to the fullness of her breast ? |
| 10 | It seemed so right , the low burr of two voices in the pool of candlelight . |
| 11 | Inset below right Americans in London : Rodeo boys take a trip down Queen Victoria Street in June 1924 . |
| 12 | A ripe apple : just a touch and it falls into the hand , round , perfect , fitting just right . |
| 13 | LSD seemed just right for the Sixties . |
| 14 | Most importantly , everything-mini-weapons , clothes , mood and spirit — seemed just right , perfectly ready to meet an important personage . |
| 15 | ‘ No anaesthetic , and you 'll feel as right as rain afterwards . ’ |
| 16 | Grandmothers were an integral part of life and so , when the mass emigrations began , it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of the families left behind . |
| 17 | Not many lives ago there were public hangings in this country and people certainly thought it was their right to watch and enjoy in fact , they even paid for seats to see public hangings , if they could afford to and as Mr has pointed out , er it 's not long ago er that bear baiting and badger baiting and cock fighting were seen as right and proper and no doubt spoken of as rights of free born Englishmen . |
| 18 | While that seemed intellectually right , he said , it depended too much on the integrity of management and advisers in subjective assessments and far safer would be to accept the limitations of balance sheets and adhere more rigidly to historical values . |
| 19 | Today we have lost a marvellous opportunity put that right . |
| 20 | That 'll look just right with the lilac . |
| 21 | " I wanted to look just right , and I … it was dreadful . " |
| 22 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 23 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air , and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 24 | Anybody who thought that P90s were a little bit old hat would be sure to think again when confronted with this guitar , because they sound just right . |
| 25 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 26 | Toby led the way into a thickly carpeted hallway , then turned abruptly right and entered a living room resplendent with rich sage-coloured draperies , velvet sofas , and glass-fronted cabinets full of porcelain . |
| 27 | Campbell and Ronald try it out , but it does n't look quite right . |
| 28 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 29 | Well I 'll go and get ready then , I 'm not going yet right , I 'll get on my shirt and I 'll take the bed down and tidy up , right , and rake that fire out , do you hear the dogs snoring ? |
| 30 | Erm have we got that right ? |