Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 2 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 3 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 4 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 5 | The fact of the matter is that it is not , as I have explained to the right hon. Gentleman on many occasions , happening only in this country . |
| 6 | ‘ I have come to the right place , have I ? |
| 7 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 8 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 9 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 10 | You 've got ta the right person . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 12 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 13 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 14 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 15 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 16 | If you have played DEFECT ( this means we have to look at the right hand column ) , the best card I could have played would have been DEFECT too . |
| 17 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 18 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 19 | Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head . |
| 20 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 21 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 22 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 23 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 24 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 25 | It was discovered that the five year contract he had signed with the right wing government three days before the general elections entitled him to £724,000 . |