Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] right " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there 's no ‘ wow ’ factor in just getting it right and so much of the work is a distress purchase . ’ |
| 32 | erm getting it right 's important . |
| 33 | ‘ I 'm tired of reading and hearing about bands who do nothing but slag off their first record , and blame the producer for not getting it right . |
| 34 | He attended the World Championships as Head of Delegation to the GB team : ‘ To see Neil win Britain 's first ever medal at this level , competing against gymnasts from the world 's strongest nations , can only go to prove that we 're getting it right , ’ says Paul . |
| 35 | Anyway after a lot of ‘ getting it right ’ man and wo-man had a child . |
| 36 | Woman was able to do less and less work , suffered from morning sickness and gradually her lifestyle changed from eating , sleeping , working and ‘ getting it right ’ to bingeing frequently and sleeping . |
| 37 | Meanwhile man carried on eating , sleeping and working but with the noticeable exception of ‘ getting it right ’ ( sex — just in case you have n't got it by now ) . |
| 38 | Getting it right — technically speaking |
| 39 | None the less , there is a trade-off between getting it now and getting it right . |
| 40 | Now there 's a word that covers that and that the the choice of words based on on getting it right for the audience particularly in terms of jargon is what is called wordsmith . |
| 41 | In Paris I was n't getting it right . |
| 42 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 43 | We believe now we 're getting it right ! |
| 44 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
| 45 | ACCEPT that keeping the customer satisfied means getting it right first time , every time . |
| 46 | Get your salary , that you feel that I 'm doing this and I 'm getting it right . |
| 47 | We tend to reckon , perhaps rather arrogantly , that we take a rather longer view of the needs of society , and maybe are as close to getting it right as , as , as , as ministers with their day-by-day short-term preoccupations . |
| 48 | They 're not getting it right , and there are really no longer any excuses . ’ |
| 49 | Getting it right first time . |
| 50 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 51 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 52 | That is why in this manifesto we set out a clear analysis of Britain 's problems and our proposals for putting them right . |
| 53 | ‘ But we 're putting them right . |
| 54 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 55 | But then actually , the things you do and putting them right are different things . |
| 56 | She must waste no time in putting him right . |
| 57 | What do you think as I fear that putting it right may be a costly job ? |
| 58 | Putting it right will not be so easy . |
| 59 | The country is in such disorder that a successor may be unequal to the task of putting it right . |
| 60 | Putting it right will cost always a lot more than making your will . |