Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the right [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building a home is a more demanding business altogether since it necessarily involves assembling the right materials , deciding on a layout and somehow fastening things together . |
| 2 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
| 3 | If a band do n't write their own songs , the manager has to find the right songwriters . |
| 4 | She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence . |
| 5 | However , I was going to try to pull the right strings . |
| 6 | Amplified vibration can reinforce the normal rhythm of speech and can greatly assist forming the right habits . |
| 7 | Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened . |
| 8 | Men can have one dark suit and wear it all day and no one will even notice , but women are expected to have the right clothes for lunch and afternoon tea and working in and then have some stunning outfit for evening . |
| 9 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 10 | When she has created the right conditions , the light comes through from a source beyond her vision , with its own energy and life . |
| 11 | Even when answers start to emerge , it will be some time before those who depend on the industry for a livelihood — and that includes at least 100,000 Scots — will know whether or not he has sent the right signals in a climate of fierce international competition for scarce oil industry investment funds . |
| 12 | He was a comical little man but as she smiled and tried to say the right things — ‘ Oh ! |
| 13 | We want sparkle on the job , and we want to make the right tools available . |
| 14 | If you 'd said the right things at |
| 15 | But , initially at least , it seemed to express the right kinds of sentiment . |
| 16 | Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm |
| 17 | We are n't prevented from having the debate and indeed in having that debate Hambleton will have to prove they 've made drawn the right boundaries . |
| 18 | He was brilliant : he 'd assembled the right elements . |
| 19 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 20 | And then you 've got to dial the right numbers or else you wo n't get grandma , you 'll get somebody else . |
| 21 | If your senior executives have the information to help them answer the following questions they will be well equipped to make the right decisions . |
| 22 | Players of his calibre will always scare opponents because they always seem to make the right decisions . ’ |
| 23 | Doubtless it could be arranged to give the right answers . |
| 24 | In the course of getting to know the right conditions for plants to survive well , in addition to looking their best in the overall scheme of the garden , Tricia — internationally known as an interior designer — has naturally become something of a plantswoman . |
| 25 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 26 | ‘ I like to eat a lot and because I do , I like to eat the right things . |
| 27 | She began to exchange odd words with the others , the Afghan 's owner , tall and bearded in home-knitted sweaters full of mistakes , the woman who ran a boutique a street away and her argumentative pekinese , and an Alsatian with a middle-aged man in dark suits and expensive shoes who looked like an advertisement for men 's tailoring , the kind who would be bound to have the right clothes for any occasion . |
| 28 | Tristan 's arrival had prevented her and she would never have found the right words to accompany the gift in any case . |
| 29 | Regional Railways : Decade to be spent making the right signals |
| 30 | Well try and explain it , you do n't have to get the right words . |