Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leader would give him a right bollocking , but there were no hard feelings , because everyone knew that really he loved the poor little bugger , with an almost fatherly concern . |
| 2 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 3 | By agreeing to give him a right one purports to confer it on him , or one promises to do so in the future ( the expression is ambiguous ) . |
| 4 | MINISTER David Mellor 's toes might thrill Antonia de Sancha — but Britain 's teenagers find him a right turn-off . |
| 5 | My wife gave me a right old bo*****ing last night when I started shouting abuse at Keumann ( sp ? ) |
| 6 | Fucking what , I , I 'm , I think it was he 's mum or not , some old biddy gave me a right old . |
| 7 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |