Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pilots do get into trouble an instructor will be on hand to put them right . |
| 2 | The controls were disturbed , and now we have to put them right . ’ |
| 3 | The implied contempt for instinct , together with his excessive logical faculty , explains why Socrates should have depreciated all known art and ethics and aspired with " divine naivete " to put them right . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought it prudent to put you right . ’ |
| 5 | When someone comes along and gives you a mouthful , not maliciously but to put you right , boy do you like it ! ’ |
| 6 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 7 | Effectively the sequence is that the person in default is told what is wrong and is required to put it right . |
| 8 | Most ‘ organisers ’ swan in at eight-thirty looking important , only to discover there 's a big hitch and they have no time to put it right . |
| 9 | If I started on a catalogue of what is going wrong with the world , let alone what we might do to put it right , there would be no end . |
| 10 | If your are unhappy with a new hairstyle , complain to your hairdresser while you are still in the salon , and if possible get her to put it right before you settle the bill . |
| 11 | ‘ If we go for a drive in his Escort and anything goes wrong with it , he knows I 'll be there to put it right ! ’ |
| 12 | Shake off that depression , assess where you went wrong and try to put it right next year . |
| 13 | There is a strong determination to put it right this time and not to let things slip . |
| 14 | In the best teams , this sort of thing rarely happens , but if it does , a collective effort is made to put it right . |
| 15 | Crime had been portrayed by positivists as a pathology , requiring the application of psychological or sociological technology to put it right ; criminals were seen as a kind of societal waste product requiring hygienic processing . |
| 16 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 17 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 18 | " It 's going to cost the earth to put it right . |
| 19 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 20 | Used to yes used to put it right yes . |
| 21 | If everything i s all right you can proceed , or if a problem is detected , the surveyor will give an estimate of the likely costs required to put it right . |
| 22 | And the quality systems will help us to monitor and identify where things are going wrong and once we know what is going wrong , we 've got an opportunity to put it right . |
| 23 | Should she tell him yes , he had made her pregnant , and see if he would give her a guinea or two to put it right ? |
| 24 | It was , though , and you 're going to have to learn to live with that fact , because you 're certainly not going to get a chance to put it right ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Give me a chance to put it right , ’ he murmured , and at the same time his fingers traced a delicate pattern over the inner skin of her wrists as he lightly caught hold of her and drew her closer . |
| 26 | It 's time people gave some of our youngsters the credit for realising the state the country is in and knowing that they are the ones who are going to have to put it right — and are prepared to work hard to do so . |
| 27 | Nobody in this business is infallible , but if something does go wrong , the customer must know that the contractor has the technical resources and financial muscle to put it right ; just as that contractor needs to have the resources and skilled manpower to tackle any infestation , and be neither too big to care nor too small to cope . |
| 28 | Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister has suddenly discovered this problem and intends to put it right — |
| 30 | When giving evidence to the PCA , the then permanent secretary to the Department agreed that that situation could not be defended , so we decided to put it right . |