Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 4 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 5 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 6 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 7 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 8 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 9 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was discovered that the five year contract he had signed with the right wing government three days before the general elections entitled him to £724,000 . |