Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think as I fear that putting it right may be a costly job ? |
| 2 | it were Joan really that put me right there it were thirteen as opposed to fifteen |
| 3 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 4 | That way you have time to find problems — and put them right . |
| 5 | The main reason they are not overcome is lack of time to discover the mistake and put it right . |
| 6 | The Mourneview defender who stormed out and demanded a transfer after a bust-up over training says : ‘ The club is in the wrong and must be prepared to admit the mistake and put it right . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You carry on playing with great belief , with confidence you stay together and put it right . |
| 8 | It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around . |
| 9 | And because if you 're just looking at every word separately everything lo you 've got to learn so many things have n't you if you can pot the patterns and then you can start having a a guess at what it might be and getting it right most of the time and then you gradually learn them as you go along . |
| 10 | None the less , there is a trade-off between getting it now and getting it right . |
| 11 | The result was a ‘ carpeting ’ for the entire production team and an explicit instruction to go back , do it again , and get it right . |
| 12 | ‘ And get it right this time . ’ |
| 13 | And now you have a go , and get it right . |
| 14 | It can also be spectacularly successful , though , if you work at it and get it right . |
| 15 | ‘ Michael has a great determination to do everything himself and get it right , ’ said Watkin . |
| 16 | Telling one 's own stories to children of different ages is extremely satisfying and also shows you where you went wrong in the rhythm of a sentence ; unconsciously you alter it to fit the audience in front of you and get it right , so that it makes its point swiftly and powerfully . |
| 17 | Try and get it right . |
| 18 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 19 | Easy enough for the reader to imagine such a precisely-described scene , and to get it right , you 'd think . |
| 20 | After a while , doing that once or twice , you 'll get a real feel for it , and you 'll then know how to write it and , and to get it right . |
| 21 | He says : ‘ The fans have been frustrated because we have n't scored but all we can do is to try and put it right . |
| 22 | Ryan was one of our own , you might say , came from the village , so it was up to us to try and put it right . |
| 23 | But then actually , the things you do and putting them right are different things . |
| 24 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe I can drop a hint or two and put her right , otherwise Maggie will have them both ostracized if she goes round saying that girl 's a Republican . |
| 26 | When someone comes along and gives you a mouthful , not maliciously but to put you right , boy do you like it ! ’ |
| 27 | The teachers ' union even submitted the draft constitution to the bishops so as to get it right . |