Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 2 | Your mam 's so good with them — she 'll make sure Danny does n't get into mischief and see that Lilian has her bottle at the right time . ’ |
| 3 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 4 | The respondent was alleged to have grappled the father of the young man around the neck and pushed him away so violently that he fell and cut his head above the right eye . |
| 5 | Eventually his father moved on to the pitch and , seizing his son by the right ear , dragged him back into a fielding position . |
| 6 | ‘ They have a future as long as they can channel their aggression in the right area . |
| 7 | he 's got his heart on the right instead of his left , the liver on the left instead of the right , the appendix on the left instead of the right and other internal organs possibly |
| 8 | She spoke slowly , partly so she could drop her voice to the right sort of sexy drawl and partly because she was desperately wondering what to say next . |
| 9 | They may ask the husband to say how he feels , then question the wife about that answer , checking with him if she has understood his meaning in the right way . |
| 10 | Carrickcruppin 's Keith Quigley gets his chance in the right corner of the defence , while in the last line of attack Shane McConville and Barry O'Hagan have been included , alongside the experienced Kieran McGurk . |
| 11 | " Get your peg in the right hole , missus , before you chip off the corners — and possibly even lay bare your embarrassment " . |
| 12 | He worked his way down the right side of the road . |
| 13 | On Saturday night at the end of the Rosary Moran said , ‘ I want to offer a final prayer to God that He may guide your father on the right course , ’ and they all knew , even to the boy Michael , to what he was referring . |
| 14 | ‘ She took her insulin at the right time , and ate properly ? ’ |
| 15 | His foot and leg movements improved immeasurably , and his walking gait became more normal as he learned to swing his leg in the right pattern . |
| 16 | Fielding ( I noticed ) cut his veal in the normal way , but then passed his fork to the right hand to prong the meat . |
| 17 | Er , the current number one figures for casualties , I think , I , I 'm just thumbing through my papers , I 'm not gon na put my finger on the right one , I think it , the average value of the casualty is about thirty five thousand pounds . |
| 18 | The lay people of Durham were proud to have their bishop at the right hand of the Queen . |
| 19 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 20 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 21 | So that we can go and put our effort in the right places , I 'm awfully sorry to be erm having to push off er in a hurry , but , you know it 's partly my fault for having delayed the start , er |
| 22 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 23 | He patted his hair to the right state of fluffiness , turned his trousers up the right amount of cuff , gave a quick loving look . |