Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 2 | This is a relationship that always carries more seeds of hope in it than many others that break down ( or never get started on the right foot ) . |
| 3 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 4 | As Lloyd George perceptively remarked in 1911 , " the fools have stumbled on the right man by accident " . |
| 5 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |