Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 2 | Erm , what they need to be able to do is just be able to gently lead it along the right tunnel |
| 3 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 4 | However , failing that , an international money order can be drawn in almost any currency — your bank will advise on how best to obtain one in the right denomination . |
| 5 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 6 | And just to put them in the right mood , they have now been invited to take part in an international competition at Market Drayton next weekend ( June 19–20 ) involving the United States junior team , Eire and Great Britain juniors . |
| 7 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 8 | Then you just point it in the right direction , switch on , and it 's done . ’ |
| 9 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 10 | just to get it in the right |
| 11 | That 's right , yes I mean , the goalkeeper was fantastic first half , and really we only had one chance second half , and he made a great save from Fossey. erm First half , it was a case of just throwing himself into the right area and the ball was hitting his body and you know , he was just a good example of how to be a good goalkeeper . |
| 12 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 13 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 14 | Might I just add that if anybody does actually pay their fee by cheques erm please make it to the right department er as as Tom will give you erm the co the correct er name for for your cheque . |
| 15 | Well if it 's to do with anything you 've seen here please make it in the right quarters not at me . |
| 16 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 17 | jelly boy put the tape in then Aaron and I 'll press , there I 'll fast forward it , no you 've got it , you 've got it , no you have n't got it round the right way |
| 18 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 19 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 20 | This is your ammunition — PLEASE fire it in the right direction ! |
| 21 | I could n't point you in the right direction immediately you 'd have to sort of |
| 22 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 23 | This is achieved by holding down the fire button until the meter below the energy bar reaches maximum , then releasing it at the right moment . |
| 24 | He and his friends would take us , they said , safely to the edge of the airport and from there point us in the right direction . |
| 25 | Of course , not all strategic options are of that type , but , where they are , this approach may at least get one into the right position for estimating the cash benefits to compare with the investment outlay . |
| 26 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 27 | Feargal bought her ticket , made sure she understood the map of which part of the mountain was hers to search , and then pointed her in the right direction . |
| 28 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's definitely put me on the right tracks for the future . |
| 30 | I never get it in the right place . |