Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it but it 's often misinterpreted , as being of the right mind and having the right attitude , about understanding |
| 2 | When he first fell in love with Alyce-Faye , Cleese revealed : ‘ I 've got this new relationship right because of a mixture of learning from therapy and meeting the right person . |
| 3 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 4 | We think evolution took place not by sort of hitting in one bang the right answer — that would be like the surgeon moving his scalpel a foot and hitting the right point , but by successive changes , changing one amino acid at a time , each change being a slight improvement on what was there before . |
| 5 | Northampton social services department says the problem is one of finding and hiring the right quality people . |
| 6 | in general there is perhaps a little bit too much of an emphasis on beliefs and saying the right thing — giving the right word . |
| 7 | Pointing at the object and pressing the right mouse button displays each object 's properties . |
| 8 | When the door had opened to admit her , the waiting tension still gnawing at him had finally transformed itself into swift action , and he 'd been too busy quitting the bed and judging the right moment to attack to identify the intruder . |
| 9 | It 's been working with NeXT since January , tuning the software and getting the right hardware configuration — stuff like modifying its QVision board . |
| 10 | The whole movie industry had become obsessed with achieving respectability by widening the mix of patrons and in the trade papers we see an almost frenetic attention to the small details of improving comfort and achieving the right publicity . |
| 11 | A rebuilding job is now required and Alan Noble , as chairman , has the task of laying suitably firm foundations off the pitch and finding the right man for the construction work on the other side of the fence at Feethams . |