Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Winning team captain Mike Kemp says : ‘ It was all good fun and every game was played in the right spirit . |
| 32 | The republican state was undermined by the right wing counter reforms which eased the road to violence . |
| 33 | ‘ All you 'd ‘ ave to do is stand in front of 'em and ‘ ope the wind was blowin' in the right direction . ’ |
| 34 | I was hit on the right leg and nearly fell . |
| 35 | A 10 cm fish was removed from the right bronchus and the boy made a full recovery . |
| 36 | Once again Taylor was afflicted by the right back curse . |
| 37 | In all 15 sign languages HELP was signed with the right hand lifting and moving forward the left hand , forearm or elbow . |
| 38 | Three more lids were shut and boxes returned home and finally a large pinch of the selected substance was taken to the right nostril , another to the left . |
| 39 | In the United States MacArthur was identified with the right wing of the Republican Party with condemnation of Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal for its ‘ socialistic ’ tendencies . |
| 40 | The pressure in the rear tailcone of the fuselage reached 5.5 psi and a sudden pressure surge of 4.12 psi was recorded inside the right tailplane . |
| 41 | At least it showed that the girl 's mind was working in the right direction . |
| 42 | Five minutes before the procedure a pulse oximeter ( Model 7840 , Konitron instruments , UK ) was attached to the right index finger , and a blood pressure cuff for automated readings ( Dinamap 1846SX , Critikon , UK ) to the right arm . |
| 43 | His interest was to ensure that poetry was read with the right kind of attention , not to analyze or explain the textual means by which its effect is achieved . |