Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 2 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 4 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 5 | Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head . |
| 6 | Engel explains , ‘ … research must be undertaken for the right reasons . |
| 7 | A freezer well stocked with little bags , each containing a prepared calorie-counted and fibre-counted meal , provides excellent protection against temptation to break your diet simply because you have n't had time to shop for the right foods . |
| 8 | I have come to the conclusion that I may have to stick to one particular make for the right size . |
| 9 | He sought for the right word . |
| 10 | He sought for the right phrase . |
| 11 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 12 | In layman 's language , this means that every reaction of the patient is regarded as the right reaction . |
| 13 | In his slow crawl from the corner as he peered for the right number through the flooding windscreen , it had seemed an odd neigh-bourhood for the Fight Game : well-weeded drives , well-painted houses , the cars as recommended by Which ? and Ratepayers ' Association posters in several windows . |
| 14 | Savings vary from job to job and company to company but , given that the system is installed for the right reasons , it should be possible to recover the hardware and software costs within two years . |
| 15 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 16 | He would wait for the right moment . |
| 17 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 18 | Applying for the right jobs |
| 19 | Gobbets of pinkish-grey matter exploded from the exit wound below the right shoulder blade . |
| 20 | the feasibility of creating usable , affordable authoring systems employing artificial intelligence , vitally important if interactive media are going to be designed with the right combination of instructional and content design ; |
| 21 | He glanced the ball over Flowers head into the right corner of the net . |
| 22 | These differences may reflect the influence of parental or pedagogic pressure to write with the right hand as compared with a natural predisposition to use the left hand . |
| 23 | So each interviewer goes out hunting for informants who fit into the right boxes — or quotas . |
| 24 | Well , for me yes , because erm there are now things like the Independent Living Fund , things like that , if people fit into the right boxes and contact the right people , then they can get some sort of help but I mean , it 's still an absolute maze out there for anybody who does n't have that sort of back up . |
| 25 | Puzzles and games must be sorted into the right boxes , boxes placed in cupboards , books on shelves and blocks packed away . |
| 26 | Directors Share Protection provides for the shares of a director who dies to pass into the right hands . |
| 27 | I disagree with the right hon. Member for Guildford . |
| 28 | ‘ A phone call , a word dropped into the right ear about how you fouled up the Norwood & Chambers contract … ’ |
| 29 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 30 | The sun was up , and they were a mile or more downriver , in wider and less turgid reaches , where some of the best fishing pools deepened under the right bank . |