Example sentences of "[verb] at the right moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 2 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 5 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 6 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 7 | Editor , — K M Citron 's editorial on BCG vaccination against tuberculosis appears at the right moment . |
| 8 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 9 | The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later . |
| 10 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 11 | Additional airbrake should be available to make the glider stop floating at the right moment . |
| 12 | Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit . |
| 13 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 14 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |