Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] the right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Not for the first time , she wishes she had her sister 's confidence with men , her way of saying just the right thing in the right way to make them laugh , or listen , or love .
2 Obviously , a special recording offers the opportunity of achieving precisely the right effect , but is considerably more expensive , even in these days of synthesizers , than library material .
3 However , we are shown that success does n't only depend on technical skill , but in selecting just the right view to paint .
4 Embryonic development is very sensitive to having just the right number of genes and so in females one of the X chromosomes is inactivated early in development , leaving just one functional X chromosome in each cell .
5 This means it is committed to doing exactly the right thing .
6 And it is her intuition that she is dependent on for finding just the right thing to muse about to the class in front of her .
7 It is a bizarre tale , and Cobb makes it memorable by hitting just the right note of horror , amusement and disbelief .
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