Example sentences of "[verb] at the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | With correct positioning , to ensure the join came at the right point with the stairs , and a generous overlap , we could cut the correct angle through both . |
| 33 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 34 | Staff numbers statement erm and , and we look at the right hand column , you will find that we have a hundred and thirty nine fee earning people , and fifty eight support . |
| 35 | Erm as we see it , there are en two possible courses on the new settlement that in fact you end up if you look at the right hand side of that sheet of paper , with four possible answers . |
| 36 | Look at the right side where the colour palette is displayed . |
| 37 | General announcements , group discussions or committees are difficult , the speechreader must look at the right place at the right time . |
| 38 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 39 | If egg and sperm meet at the right time , one of the spermatozoa is likely to penetrate the egg . |
| 40 | She handed him a Lyle 's Price Guide , open at the right page : ‘ It 's three years out of date but look at the prices . ’ |
| 41 | If you have played DEFECT ( this means we have to look at the right hand column ) , the best card I could have played would have been DEFECT too . |
| 42 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 43 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 44 | It will soon learn to walk at the right pace . |
| 45 | When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper . |
| 46 | I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’ |
| 47 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 48 | It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open . |
| 49 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 50 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 51 | But getting at the right information , and making sense of it , is increasingly difficult . |
| 52 | As far as Veronica Totteridge was concerned , Theodora was staying at the right house , riding the right sort of horse . |
| 53 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 54 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 55 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | It appeared to have arrived at the right time . |
| 58 | Editor , — K M Citron 's editorial on BCG vaccination against tuberculosis appears at the right moment . |
| 59 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 60 | First , the crossed auditory pathways inhibit the uncrossed pathways such that stimuli presented to the right ear arrive intact at the left hemisphere and stimuli presented to the left ear arrive at the right hemisphere . |