Example sentences of "[verb] at the right [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework .
2 I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke .
3 It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled .
4 Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made .
5 Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down .
6 It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open .
7 She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted .
8 We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week .
9 They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly .
10 These lessons were given at the right time and were invaluable in later life .
11 Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum .
12 Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly .
13 Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin .
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