Example sentences of "[vb past] right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the soft turf she turned his face to lie upon that grazed right cheek , and spread his arms above his head . |
| 2 | Gardner , Silverman , Wapner and Zurif ( 1978 ) found right hemisphere lesions to impair appreciation of antonymic contrasts ( opposites ) and Winner and Gardner ( 1977 ) report that right-sided damage interfered with the ability to understand metaphors . |
| 3 | More recently , Caramazza , Gordon , Zurif and De Luca ( 1976 ) found right brain damaged patients to be impaired relative to controls on tests requiring the answer to such questions as " who is shorter ? " , given that " A is taller than B " . |
| 4 | Kershner and Jeng ( 1972 ) found right eye sighting dominant subjects to be more accurate than left dominant subjects on a tachistoscopic verbal task , while the reverse was the case on a non-verbal task . |
| 5 | I commanded right hand and feet onto stick and pedals but got no reaction . |
| 6 | Not bad for someone who had n't a ) played right back or b ) been a first team regular until this season . |
| 7 | Im not saying Mel is fast — he ai nt … but he s not as slow as he looks ( he played right wing for Sheff Wed — the same size ) . |
| 8 | Even the goalkeeper , Peter Schmeichel , came right upfield for the last of Manchester 's 14 corners . |
| 9 | An electrocardiogram showed right heart strain . |
| 10 | Re-testing of the latter patients some twenty minutes after ECT indicated right hemisphere dominance for each of them . |
| 11 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 12 | Left , left , get dog , right , right , down , left , down , left , right , right , down , get hover-boots , up , left down , up ( lift ) , up , left , turn off the taps , right , right , get remote control , left , left , down , right , down ( lift ) , up , left , left , up down , right , right , right , down , get dog , up , left , left , left , up , down ( lift ) , left , down , right , right , right down , knock over bottle and press button , up , left , up , up , hit right button , down , down , right , right , up enter car and go to Level Three . |
| 13 | The thumb of his twisted , smashed right hand |
| 14 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 15 | I always looked hopefully for grandmas after that , and I must say that this theory proved right time and time again . |
| 16 | Twelve of the patients had right hemisphere speech representation as determined by the Wada sodium amytal test . |
| 17 | Of these , 134 ( 96 per cent ) patients had speech controlled from the left half of the brain and 6 ( 4 per cent ) had right hemisphere speech . |
| 18 | Among 122 non-right handers , left and mixed handers being considered together , 86 ( 70 per cent ) patients had speech controlled from the left hemisphere , 18 ( 15 per cent ) had right hemisphere speech and in 18 ( 15 per cent ) speech was bilaterally represented . |
| 19 | Three of these patients had left hemisphere speech and wrote with their left hand in the upright position ; the fourth patient wrote with a hooked posture and had right hemisphere speech . |