Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is like a large hemming stitch and must not show on the right side ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 4 | You can not rely on the right questions coming to you on the spur of the moment . |
| 5 | Er , you 're right , erm I ca n't think of the right word er |
| 6 | ‘ I meant , well , I just meant that — I du n no , I just ca n't think of the right words . |
| 7 | They did n't think in the right way . |
| 8 | You did n't look in the right place did you ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 11 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |