Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Directors Share Protection provides for the shares of a director who dies to pass into the right hands . |
| 9 | You see , it 's not up to the participants to come in the right mood . |
| 10 | Whoever he finally chose would have to come from the right stable . |
| 11 | It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space . |
| 12 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 13 | Fight the flab with fat-burning aerobic dance which is another alternative for those who only want to shake in the right places . |
| 14 | The purpose of my question was to extract from the right hon. Gentleman what he thought was meant not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department but the new clause . |
| 15 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 16 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 17 | The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day . |
| 18 | A systematic and documented approach will be more cost effective , auditable and more likely to come to the right conclusions . |
| 19 | " Clever of you to come on the right night , " he said . |
| 20 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 21 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 22 | Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper . |
| 23 | I am trying to tease from the right hon. Gentleman what he thinks is the meaning of the new clause that he invites the House to adopt . |
| 24 | On a task requiring the subject to detect and respond to a small gap in one of the sides of a square Kinsbourne ( 1973 ) found concurrent verbalisation to lead to a right hemifield superiority and humming to lead-to a bias in detecting gaps in the left visual hemifield . |
| 25 | For around £5 each , DIY shops sell locks to fit any kind of window which makes them impossible to open without the right key . |
| 26 | You get the interest by inviting good speakers to talk on the right subjects and by your format variety and , wherever possible , the right kind of sparkle . |
| 27 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 28 | Men often believed that a woman 's modesty could be judged by her ability to blush under the right circumstances . |
| 29 | I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , because the Opposition must now come clean . |
| 30 | We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency . |