Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 2 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 3 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
| 4 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 5 | Well Christopher came in here the other day and he says that cake is |
| 6 | The sound came from inside the golden orb of hair . |
| 7 | That meeting consisted of practically the whole business community of Belfast . |
| 8 | American stations possessed by now the great train-sheds and large cross-platforms or ‘ midways ’ which could compete with their European rivals . |
| 9 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 10 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 11 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 12 | Two men in boiler suits emerged from inside the rear van . |
| 13 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 14 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 15 | In a report in Retail Business , the Economist Intelligence Unit said that although Scotch remained by far the best-selling spirit , its share of the total spirits market had dropped from 50.5 per cent in 1981 to around 40.6 per cent in 1992 . |
| 16 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 17 | It was along one such barren track that Val came across more the gaunt pillars of volcanic rock , ‘ They were like giant effigies presiding over their parched and desolate kingdom . |
| 18 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |