Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said . |
| 2 | She complained that it was not feminine — a woman should show off her waist — and therefore did not convey the right image . |
| 3 | I telephoned Burakovsky , who ordered the child to be brought in , examined her , but said there was nothing they could do because , unfortunately , they did not have the right kind of specialists . |
| 4 | The mayor continued his address , but he did not have the right answers . |
| 5 | He was due to be put down because he did not have the right ears for a show class pedigree corgi . |
| 6 | The report suggested that it was not the ultimate loser 's fault that the judge at first instance and the Court of Appeal did not get the right answers , and that the loser should not be liable for the appellate costs . |
| 7 | The organisers did not provide the right equipment for the Stourbridge band . |
| 8 | As Christmas and birthdays brought more Gortex , my confidence grew and developed into mild snootiness about people who did n't wear the right things on the hill . |
| 9 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 10 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 11 | Shall we just say that I did n't meet the right woman ? |
| 12 | Caught it … but did n't catch the right part of it … |
| 13 | Slippery Elm you see you had to tape it down to a fine point and then insert it you see , and if you did n't get the right place well it 'd kill you . |
| 14 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 15 | When Clark had to hire someone to become chief executive of the new regulatory authority , the Treasury gave him a list of nine admirals , seventeen generals and six air marshals and told him they 'd be disappointed if he did n't find the right chap among them . |
| 16 | Mark says he was accompanied to the flat , but then realised he did n't have the right keys … he claims he offered to find Graham , but the officers broke in straight . |
| 17 | ‘ Tyres could have really held me back this year if I did n't have the right ones . ’ |
| 18 | TOP motorcycle ace Andy McGladdery faced a second operation because red-faced doctors did n't have the right tools to remove screws pinning his leg . |
| 19 | They stared at the floor for a few seconds then said ‘ You 'll have to come back because we did n't have the right tools . ’ ’ |
| 20 | Really it is a Cold & Eroded Crack in the Earth 's Crust ; however , Cold & Eroded Crack in the Earth 's Crust National Park just did n't have the right sound for luring Japanese yen , German marks and , should the occasion ever arise , British pounds and Zambian kwachas . |
| 21 | Well you could have won but you were daft and did n't take the right card . |
| 22 | He just did n't look the right sort of boy — in the bathroom mirror he saw his wishy-washy face , freckled and slightly spotty , his wishy-washy blue eyes staring mournfully back ; in no way did the image relate to the brown , sparkling athletes who drank beer after a game of soccer in the commercials . |
| 23 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
| 24 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 25 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 26 | He had not learned the right lesson , however , nor did he have a solution to the problem that would be posed by the mud created by rain and his own artillery . |
| 27 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |