Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right place at the right time . |
| 2 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 3 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 4 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 5 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 6 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 7 | Just click at the right time |
| 8 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 9 | In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving . |
| 10 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 11 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 12 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 13 | Until a sane , liberal regime is restored within the party itself , it will not be fully re-equipped either to arrive at the right policy choices or to project itself as a responsive party to the electorate . |
| 14 | Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God , and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured out what you now see and hear ’ ( Acts 2:32ff ) . |