Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I groped for the right word and found it' …
3 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 .
4 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
5 This was an important loss of potential moderate middle class support , who moved to the right wing in opposition to the republic .
6 You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’
7 ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’
8 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 ) .
9 You sure you got the right , you sure you sent off the right husband this morning ?
10 Are you sure you sent off the right husband ?
11 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 .
12 Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition .
13 Carefully she waited until the right moment .
14 With — ’ she searched for the right word .
15 Among left handed writers defects of verbal comprehension were more frequent than among those who wrote with the right hand .
16 She groped for the right word .
17 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 .
18 He sought for the right word .
19 He sought for the right phrase .
20 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 .
21 It came at the right time .
22 It seemed like the right sort of thing to say .
23 It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’
24 When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper .
25 When alphabetic material it exposed in the right field alone , the two tendencies will be acting together .
26 I feel … ’ he struggled for the right word ‘ … responsible . ’
27 He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head .
28 However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face .
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