Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer did one have to sound right , one need only look right — or , at the very least , different . |
| 2 | Erm , it is a real community pro I do n't watch it , I 'm not interested in it , but it is a real community project and obviously reaches right to the family . |
| 3 | Clients now became appreciative of specialisms and saw the basic good sense of employing the building specialist , not only to put right a defect , but also to refurbish entire buildings . |
| 4 | When it was all put right , Sarah pushed Roy into a chair . |
| 5 | Mum Katrina , 33 , added : ‘ Jean just seemed right . |
| 6 | Bob had never described it to her ; it just seemed right for him . |
| 7 | So when the boys and I met and they said over tea I th , well why do n't we do something about a love affair , it just seemed right . |
| 8 | Soon put right . |
| 9 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 10 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 11 | It just seems right to bring a hobby , my experience and a livelihood together and we are very set on giving it a go , ’ Mrs Rowan said . |
| 12 | He was soon proved right , as the numbers of those listening to him in England equalled two-thirds of the audience for the BBC news . |
| 13 | He liked the heat of the sun on his back , but somehow the day no longer felt right . |
| 14 | Neil Cusforth , who 's in the haulage business in Yorkshire , chose the 1.6 Primera and is delighted with it : ‘ As soon as I got in I just felt right in it : it 's so light and easy to use . ’ |
| 15 | They were soon put right . |
| 16 | Kathy is the one , yeah no that 's right , yeah , she is Kathy I du n no I just sort of get those two muddled up I do n't know why , anyway erm t Kathy was just talking right and she |
| 17 | And she claims her GP even told her that any defects the baby might have would be minor and easily put right . |
| 18 | I have always quite liked typing , and with one of these mistakes are easily put right , which is lucky for me . |
| 19 | The subordinate cat , if it wants to hold its ground , deliberately looks right away from its enemy and makes absolutely sure that its gaze never goes anywhere near the eyes of the glaring overlord . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , it hardly seemed right to leave them there in the circumstances . |
| 21 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 22 | He was rapidly proved right ; Spain pledged herself in December to a Family Compact with France , forcing England , on 2 January 1762 , to declare war on her and reviving the old nightmare of a joint Franco-Spanish fleet sweeping up the Channel to land a papist army on English soil . |
| 23 | When the media speculates about Government intentions , they are usually proved right — with the exception of the Chancellor 's Budget pronouncements . |
| 24 | ‘ And he was usually proved right in the end . ’ |
| 25 | Jonna put it into words : ‘ It hardly seems right . |
| 26 | It hardly seems right that we should get the chop |
| 27 | She had instinctive good taste , especially in her dress , and whatever the setting she always looked right . |
| 28 | They were still standing right there as another car drew up behind them with a scream of tyres and Alain emerged , tall , dark and definitely forbidding . |
| 29 | Gianni Versace 's way with film-star glitz also looks right once more . |
| 30 | It also seems right that the offence under clause 12(1) , as well as applying to obtaining possession or control without ownership , should apply to obtaining ownership without possession or control . |