Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had that guess of 3% proved right , GDP should comfortably have expanded by the same amount . |
| 2 | However , this does need lots of practice to get right . |
| 3 | The latest government survey , published in November 1988 , shows that a quarter of all homes require at least £2,200 spending on them , and that many have potentially serious structural faults which could cost thousands of pounds to put right . |
| 4 | He described how they went outside , and saw the flattened port , and hundreds of bodies lying right around them , their exposed skin scalded , and he remembered the obscene and chilling stillness of it all . |
| 5 | Of course there were a lot of details to put right . |
| 6 | It took a lot of trouble to get right . |
| 7 | The new " democratic " government has pledged billions of crowns to put right the damage caused by a 40 year industrial race with the West . |
| 8 | At obvious junction of paths keep right and at further junction just beyond , keep left . |
| 9 | Mm a week later than Christmas Day Do you know about angles making right angles ? |
| 10 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |
| 11 | If this is seen as suggesting reduced left hemisphere language representation in those with sinistral relatives it would be consonant with the findings from brain damaged right handers indicating greater bilaterality of verbal functions ( Hécaen et al. , 1981 ) and increased recovery from aphasia ( Luria , 1966 ; 1970 ; Hécaen and Sauguet , 1971 ) in association with familial sinistrality . |
| 12 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 13 | A town centre wall feared to be in danger of collapse could cost up to £60,000 to put right . |
| 14 | Unify director Tony Bowden denied that there was any truth in the rumours last week , but said that Unify was ‘ signing deals on Sybase left right and centre ’ . |