Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 3 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 4 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 5 | Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit . |