Example sentences of "not [verb] in the right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner .
2 If we look at management er procedures Could ask the question but I 'm , the mo more cynical of you will er not answer in the right way , what are management procedures ?
3 Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident .
4 Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine .
5 They did n't think in the right way .
6 You did n't look in the right place did you ?
7 You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often .
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