Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 2 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 3 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 4 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 5 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 6 | Note how the right leg is still flexed , but the see-saw has n't hit the ground , although the bulk of the body weight has transferred to the right side . |
| 7 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 8 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 9 | Whoever he finally chose would have to come from the right stable . |
| 10 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 11 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 12 | It appeared to have arrived at the right time . |
| 13 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 17 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 18 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 19 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 20 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 21 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 22 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 23 | Although Darwin had turned in the right direction , he could do very little with mind and culture during his lifetime for the same reason that he was helpless before the mysteries of heredity : the basic information and modes of thought were lacking to produce the stable foundation which he correctly viewed as essential . |
| 24 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 25 | You 've got ta the right person . |
| 26 | By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task . |
| 27 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 28 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Claudia held on to her temper with an effort ; it was bad enough that Dana had leapt to the right conclusion without her confirming it . |