Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 2 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 3 | When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’ |
| 4 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 5 | if I stay in the right place . |
| 6 | ‘ Have I come to the right place ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 8 | I groped for the right word and found it' … |
| 9 | for a time , the only way I could communicate was to spell out words letter by letter by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card . |
| 10 | The Irish Guards would give them support from the right flank , while the Welsh would advance from the left . |
| 11 | So , if the current of interest can be made to produce a magnetic field which varies in the right way along the length of the fibre , this can be used to measure current . |
| 12 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 14 | As some of the options ( transfers etc ) only come up when you land on the right square , I did n't have to wait eons for Phil to finish his turn . |
| 15 | " Clever of you to come on the right night , " he said . |
| 16 | You did n't see it at first , but you saw if you held you head at the right angle . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was an important loss of potential moderate middle class support , who moved to the right wing in opposition to the republic . |
| 19 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 21 | Are you looking at the right bit ? |
| 22 | I thought you said Oaklahoma was on yesterday , are you looking at the right page ? |
| 23 | I did n't realise , by the way , that Kathleen was a ‘ rebel ’ , but if so , — apart from Winnie perhaps — she came to the right house ( or House ) . |
| 24 | Then a little genuine humility will help you to work on the negative side and this will get you going on the right track . |
| 25 | Erm as we see it , there are en two possible courses on the new settlement that in fact you end up if you look at the right hand side of that sheet of paper , with four possible answers . |
| 26 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 27 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 28 | I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner . |
| 29 | you know of the right sort . |
| 30 | A good number of fabliaux advise the husband simply to accept his inferiority to his wife and to allow her to continue to keep the passage of the world smooth ; at the end of Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille , " The Knight with the scarlet robe " , a husband who has surprised his wife and made the compromising discovery of her lover 's horse and robe is hoodwinked by her , and the tale concludes : ( But he who keeps to the right path should believe fully , without dispute , everything that his wife tells him . ) |