Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] right [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | growing areas , from Canada to Australia , were placed in the right latitudes . |
| 2 | However , surely if they were used in the right situations , then they could be extremely useful ? |
| 3 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 4 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 5 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |