Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb pp] [art] right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He clearly has n't achieved the right balance between ‘ mental skills ’ and exploratory delivery of those skills into meaningful situations . |
2 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
3 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
4 | He had not learned the right lesson , however , nor did he have a solution to the problem that would be posed by the mud created by rain and his own artillery . |
5 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
6 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right man yet . ’ |
7 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right kind of lady , ’ Merrill murmured . |
8 | ‘ You just have n't found the right job for you . ’ |
9 | ‘ As I said ; you have n't got the right hide for command . |
10 | Now the other side of that was a plea which came from our switchboard supervisor , which I 'll come onto in a moment , where she said people will often think that of her telephonist , but in actual fact , it 's because they have n't got the right information from people at this end , so there is another side to that story . |