Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] right " in BNC.
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1 | I was hit on the right leg and nearly fell . |
2 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |
3 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
4 | I think , you know , you , you were going down the right track , you 've got ta be really . |
5 | ‘ You were waiting for the right person . ’ |
6 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
7 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
8 | Because they were made of the right kind of iron ? |
9 | However , surely if they were used in the right situations , then they could be extremely useful ? |
10 | ‘ Launch ’ is an apt term : it was never his intention to control or manipulate the Council , for it was a sovereign body under his presidency ; his duty was to see that it was heading in the right direction . |
11 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
12 | 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 . |