Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 2 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 3 | Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail . |
| 4 | The letter expressed the CPSU 's ‘ deep anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland ’ , regretted that the necessary measures had not been taken against domestic anti-Soviet and anti-socialist forces , and called upon the Polish party to ‘ reverse the course of events and channel them in the right direction ’ . |
| 5 | Send them to the right person at the right address for payment and include the following information : |
| 6 | The new edition of the Oxford Placement Tests now gives you everything you need to test your students , mark their papers , and place them in the right class with accuracy and efficiency . |
| 7 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 8 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 9 | For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music . |
| 10 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 11 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
| 12 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 13 | There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three-Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . |
| 14 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 15 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 16 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 17 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 18 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 19 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 20 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 21 | Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out . |
| 22 | catch him at the right time . |
| 23 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 24 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 25 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 26 | But make sure we put it on the right side though ! |
| 27 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 28 | No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction |
| 29 | See who can remember them in the right order . |
| 30 | Then it was up to us and the dogs to stalk a heed and chase them in the right direction . |