Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the right [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was hit on the right leg and nearly fell . |
| 32 | Go to the right places and there will be a big railway station or a billboard full of flickering neon lights . |
| 33 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 34 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 35 | This mode has been associated with the right hemisphere and tends more towards passive , visual processing , during which the overall emotional tone if a situation becomes paramount . |
| 36 | Maud liked to be associated with the right people and be seen in the right places . |
| 37 | A 10 cm fish was removed from the right bronchus and the boy made a full recovery . |
| 38 | I did n't know whether I 'd put in the right number and I thought well I 'll , I wo n't let anyone answer it , I 'll just re-dial . |
| 39 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 40 | 3 Have the photographs processed to the right size and on the right paper . |
| 41 | ‘ He has been playing on the right side and doing very well , ’ said Bingham who has always been a Black admirer . |
| 42 | They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly . |
| 43 | These lessons were given at the right time and were invaluable in later life . |
| 44 | Correctly speaking , from the top of the backswing , the space between left arm and right shoulder should immediately widen , without the left arm seeming to be jammed onto the right shoulder and the right shoulder pushing it . |
| 45 | In the split second he woke he felt wonderfully light and at ease , comfortable in his skin , all his limbs absolutely relaxed in the right order and oh so comfortable where they were . |
| 46 | A good practice exercise is to make three-quarter swings , feeling that the left arm swings to the right shoulder and then away from it , and additionally then feeling that the arms swing to the right shoulder and then to the left shoulder . |
| 47 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 48 | I groped for the right word and found it' … |
| 49 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 50 | On the back , quite without superficial decoration , the artist has concentrated on revealing the forms of the body , not adapted to a linear pattern but swelling in majestic simplicity under the smooth cloak which originally veiled the hair and falls almost to the ankles , held in the right hand and brought round under the left elbow to be tucked into the belt in front . |
| 51 | While some prodigies struggle without the right challenges and others burn out on reaching university , there are a few who face another obstacle — parental jealousy . |
| 52 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 53 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |