Example sentences of "had the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I need lads who had no ties , and who had the right character . |
| 2 | He had the right mixture of politics and economics , cleverly interwoven with deadly figures and Government pledges to throw back in Norman Lamont 's face . |
| 3 | Burrows became more and more convinced that he had the right man . |
| 4 | ‘ Farrah had the right abductor … if there is such a thing . ’ |
| 5 | But I do n't think we had the right attitude , ’ Sheila says . |
| 6 | He felt great , he worked with class and he had the right attitude . |
| 7 | ‘ He was always very careful about ‘ the company ’ , making sure we had the right attitude . |
| 8 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 9 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 10 | I do n't think I had the right attitude towards it . |
| 11 | Although Mr Headroom was actually flesh and blood posing as the unreal thing , there are plenty of computer animation specialists who think he had the right idea . |
| 12 | Perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson had the right idea in his travels in the Cevennes . |
| 13 | But he drew the line at including gurls , because gurls were less than zero — J M Barrie had the right idea there . |
| 14 | PRINCESS Diana had the right idea sending back her Mercedes car . |
| 15 | It would be excessive , even in today 's permissive times , to return to Stalin 's methods , but Lazar Kaganovich , Moscow party boss in the 1930s had the right idea : ‘ when the manager walks into the enterprise , the ground should tremble ! ’ |
| 16 | This Dickens had the right idea after all , no matter who his anonymous friend might be . |
| 17 | ‘ He had the right idea about women , ’ Lucenzo said cynically . |
| 18 | We were concerned with the start-up and whether people had the right idea about business studies … |
| 19 | ‘ I just do n't feel I had the right level of care . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Paranoid , ’ he said with satisfaction , sure for once he had the right word . |
| 21 | It had the right colour in it as well . |
| 22 | ‘ We felt that between us we had the right mix of skills . ’ |
| 23 | Like the Corporation cars , several of these had the right hand side bulkhead window modified with a hinged opening light at the top . |
| 24 | Darwin succeeded where earlier evolutionists had failed because he had the right solution to the problem of explaining how populations actually change in response to environmental pressure . |
| 25 | This , thought Robert , had the right ring to it . |
| 26 | Blood tests finally convinced Elaine Hinchcliff , of Stanton , Suffolk , she had the right baby in West Suffolk hospital , Bury St Edmonds . |
| 27 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 28 | In the first half his passing had the right weight and direction to give Williams and Wright opportunities to use their speed against the Yugoslav defence and bypass the sweeper , Petric . |
| 29 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 30 | So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely ! |