Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ And Feargal said he would be down there that day , and I said — you know how you do — if you happen to see a dark green Morris Minor driven by this astonishingly beautiful girl with cropped dark hair , would you make sure she gets on the right road ? |
| 32 | You may then have to look through reams of examples before you decide on the right person for the job . |
| 33 | If you tack at the right time , when the wind slightly changes in direction , large amounts of ground can be made over those who are oblivious to the shift . |
| 34 | You sure you got the right , you sure you sent off the right husband this morning ? |
| 35 | Are you sure you sent off the right husband ? |
| 36 | To change their properties you click on the right mouse button . |
| 37 | You start at the right hand side of the window |
| 38 | ( But do n't forget that you still need to make sure you start with the right sum insured and to tell us if you improve your home or add to your possessions . ) |
| 39 | If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment . |
| 40 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 41 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 42 | With — ’ she searched for the right word . |
| 43 | Among left handed writers defects of verbal comprehension were more frequent than among those who wrote with the right hand . |
| 44 | well you stick on the right hand lane when no one overtaking that 's not causing trouble for us is it ? |
| 45 | She groped for the right word . |
| 46 | ‘ If the fans see you working with the right attitude , they 'll get behind you . |
| 47 | Staff numbers statement erm and , and we look at the right hand column , you will find that we have a hundred and thirty nine fee earning people , and fifty eight support . |
| 48 | Newsome is also a covering right back , so I think we have about the right number … |
| 49 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 50 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 51 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 52 | Well they come from the right area , do n't they ? |
| 53 | Reading have returned to the blueprint of their 1990 title success by recalling Per Jonsson and Armando Castagna as they strive for the right formula to regain the league championship . |
| 54 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 55 | He plays on the right wing and has pace as well as skill . |
| 56 | Oh come on Christopher come and sometimes it in the right panel , that 's the right panel there and then it goes in the left hand and then it goes to the right hand and then it goes to the left then right , the left , the right , left , right , left , confusing , but it 's that hand to start with |
| 57 | It goes in the right direction in so far as it does aim to re to continue to reduction in migration , but it does n't go far enough . |
| 58 | He sought for the right word . |
| 59 | He sought for the right phrase . |
| 60 | In his slow crawl from the corner as he peered for the right number through the flooding windscreen , it had seemed an odd neigh-bourhood for the Fight Game : well-weeded drives , well-painted houses , the cars as recommended by Which ? and Ratepayers ' Association posters in several windows . |