Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
2 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
3 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
4 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
5 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
6 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
7 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
8 | If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius . |
9 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
10 | Ideas flew from Lucy 's lips , Jay worked them into the right phrase , the right analogy . |
11 | Bradford TEC responded immediately , helped me understand its systems and guided me in the right direction on form-filling , etc . |
12 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
13 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
14 | One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear . |
15 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
16 | It would have been boorish not to return to the Jardin de Paris for lunch , a short walk which took me along the right bank of the Duna to the famous Széchenyi Bridge and Clark Adam tér . |
17 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
18 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
19 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
20 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
21 | She pushed him into the right positions . |
22 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
23 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
24 | Feargal bought her ticket , made sure she understood the map of which part of the mountain was hers to search , and then pointed her in the right direction . |