Example sentences of "[verb] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 2 | " I know you 're a faggot and everything but I 'll tell you what the problem is : you just never met the right guy . |
| 3 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 4 | I never met the right woman . |
| 5 | John Horam , of Fulham , a former Labour minister , believed the Chancellor was pursuing the right policies . ’ |
| 6 | In the main , however , most people welcomed the proposals , among the most heartening of which was one to allow developers to invest private capital in hospital closure programmes in order to enable the right kinds of alternative accommodation to be developed . |
| 7 | Many a good dog has been ruined when he has done something good and , for some reason , not received the right response from the handler ; in other words , the wrong association has been created . |
| 8 | She felt gloriously immune to the unspoken pull here to wear the right clothes , to be seen with the right people , in the right places , at the right time . |
| 9 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 10 | If you eat the right foods and take some exercise you will begin to understand and know your body better and you will be able to discern something that is just a muscular ache from carrying heavy shopping from a pain that you have never encountered before . |
| 11 | eat the right amount of energy ( calories ) to keep us at the right weight |
| 12 | In all three works it seemed a little too often as if you simply had to programme in the appropriate music , push the right button , and out it came with a pat brilliance , with an irreproachable but impersonal expertise . |
| 13 | The language is not always clear as the dialects and slang can be confusing but they do convey the right atmosphere . |
| 14 | She complained that it was not feminine — a woman should show off her waist — and therefore did not convey the right image . |
| 15 | After all , at this price , the word ’ Estate ’ does n't really convey the right image . |
| 16 | Judge Wroath applied the right test in deciding whether or not the mother was unreasonably withholding her consent . |
| 17 | Long-sighted people are unable to hit the right point in the eye too . |
| 18 | Long-sighted people are unable to hit the right point in the eye too . |
| 19 | Bell hopes to hit the right note again |
| 20 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
| 21 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 22 | Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way . |
| 23 | Whilst this is expecting a great deal for such groups , a measure of personal ministry to the individual plus group ministry to one another would seem to preserve the right balance . |
| 24 | Some of it was clearly new to them , and er , they made the right responses . |
| 25 | If the right hon. Gentleman begins to listen to what many employers elsewhere in Europe are saying , he will learn that they recognise that we made the right decisions . |
| 26 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 27 | Perhaps H. G. Wells made the right choice when he cast octopus-like animals in the role of intelligent alien invaders in The War of the Worlds . |
| 28 | ‘ I can see I made the right choice , ’ James said . |
| 29 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 30 | ‘ You really do think I made the right choice ? ’ she asked anxiously . |