Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has now produced the right package to put this country back on course . ’ |
| 2 | He clearly has n't achieved the right balance between ‘ mental skills ’ and exploratory delivery of those skills into meaningful situations . |
| 3 | And when you run against him you 'd better wear the right protection . |
| 4 | On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get . |
| 5 | Having thus identified the right way to do the job and explained why it was not practically possible for Owen to adopt it , they then proceed to attack the substance of his proposal . |
| 6 | The lock to open the door of her sensuality had only needed the right key . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the contrary , Aubrey 's instant approval of his choice of a wife had added to his own conviction that he had finally made the right decision for his future happiness . |
| 11 | Then I saw that the disease had also struck the right leg . |
| 12 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 13 | All the same , I 've certainly got the right shape for dealing with large animals — look … ’ |
| 14 | Because you 've never met the right woman … she wanted to say . |
| 15 | If the editor decides to invert the press release , you 've actually done the right thing in putting your good point first . |
| 16 | You 've definitely got the right idea . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right man yet . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right kind of lady , ’ Merrill murmured . |
| 20 | ‘ You just have n't found the right job for you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ As I said ; you have n't got the right hide for command . |
| 22 | Now the other side of that was a plea which came from our switchboard supervisor , which I 'll come onto in a moment , where she said people will often think that of her telephonist , but in actual fact , it 's because they have n't got the right information from people at this end , so there is another side to that story . |
| 23 | I went the wrong way when I was twenty-one , and have never found the right path again . |