Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s .
2 I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke .
3 She was stumbling for the right words .
4 A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time .
5 She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment .
6 He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks .
7 ‘ Launch ’ is an apt term : it was never his intention to control or manipulate the Council , for it was a sovereign body under his presidency ; his duty was to see that it was heading in the right direction .
8 We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction .
9 I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise .
10 He warned Margaret Thatcher , as she prepares for a Commonwealth heads of government conference next week where the issue of sanctions on South Africa is expected to be central , against insisting that ‘ the regime ’ was moving in the right direction .
11 With most of 1962 and 1963 taken up with stage , television and film work , Crawford could reflect that his career was moving in the right direction .
12 As far as Veronica Totteridge was concerned , Theodora was staying at the right house , riding the right sort of horse .
13 ‘ All you 'd ‘ ave to do is stand in front of 'em and ‘ ope the wind was blowin' in the right direction . ’
14 At least it showed that the girl 's mind was working in the right direction .
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