Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 2 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 3 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
| 4 | Well Christopher came in here the other day and he says that cake is |
| 5 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 6 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
| 7 | The sound came from inside the golden orb of hair . |
| 8 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 9 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 10 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 11 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 12 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 13 | That meeting consisted of practically the whole business community of Belfast . |
| 14 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 15 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
| 16 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 17 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
| 18 | Oh really , I only went in there the other day , well the other week about a fortnight ago |
| 19 | When I went in there the other week , you walk in and think is n't she nice . |
| 20 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 21 | Travis crossed to where the first-aid box sat and extracted some pain-killers . |
| 22 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 23 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 24 | Births to routine non-manual workers families ( IIIN ) fell by roughly the national average . |
| 25 | Two men in boiler suits emerged from inside the rear van . |
| 26 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 27 | It was the last great age of travel — by ship and by train — before the joys and mysteries and individualism of travel were overtaken by the bland , pre-packaged age of tourism when daily long-distance flights , with their second-rate movies , plastic food , and attendant jet lag , replaced for ever the slow boat to China and the stopping train to Samarkand . |
| 28 | So Plato , who wrote about both the Athenian family of Pisistratus and the tyranny in fourth-century Sicily , spoke ( Rep . |
| 29 | We had over here the double whammy of taxation increases and price increases if Kinnock got elected . |
| 30 | Below : Buffalo 's officers gave a rousing cheer to the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Sterling as they passed by abroad the Royal yacht , Britannia |