Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] right [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
2 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
3 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
4 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
5 | ‘ I 've been right through it but there 's no address or anything . |
6 | I 've been right round the lot anyway so that 's jolly good . |
7 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
8 | I 'd seen no sign of Mala , but I had n't expected it , since she 'd been right about us being less obvious if we were apart . |
9 | It appeared that she 'd been right about Harry Martin 's being behind the attempts to intimidate her . |
10 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
11 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
12 | She had been right of course . |
13 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
14 | so it 's not two in a row yeah , we went right , er we 've been right round looking at all shops this week and we 've had a right bloody go have n't we Alec ? |
15 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
16 | He 'd been right about Bryce . |
17 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
18 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
19 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
20 | ‘ All the power we could ever have wanted , and it 's been right under my nose for years . ’ |
21 | He 's been right about Sebastian contacting her . |