Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stitch braid or fringing to the right side on the lower edge . |
| 2 | put the name of your man onto a postcard and send it to us at Central South … in Abingdon where our post code is 0X 14 1SA … prizes if you guess or vote for the right man … two season tickets for the manor and five United shirts … |
| 3 | put the name of your man onto a postcard and send it to us at Central South … in Abingdon where our post code is 0X 14 1SA … prizes if you guess or vote for the right man … two season tickets for the manor and five United shirts … |
| 4 | You sometimes hear people say that it is not worth eating differently , or getting to the right weight ; they say they prefer a short and happy life to a long and miserable one . |
| 5 | that when you 've got one that looks like a right angle and they |
| 6 | And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best . |
| 7 | Although getting to the right beach was the first logical step in amphibious raids — as the ISTD Centre had implied in their 1938 studies — the chronological development of these operations was less orderly . |
| 8 | The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views . |
| 9 | But he was just in passing sentence so that he would not accept money nor shrink from the right way ; and these sentences he gave after careful deliberation with much maturity of judgment . |
| 10 | HAPPINESS is a conditioned reflex that comes from the right thoughts . |
| 11 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 12 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 13 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |
| 14 | PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence . |
| 15 | PERT and CPM are valuable when planning a project as they help the planner to ensure that all jobs have been considered and placed in the right logical sequence . |
| 16 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 17 | * Take needle behind work and bring to the right side through loops at left , four rows higher . |
| 18 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 19 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 20 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 21 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 22 | A properly-made U/V unit will clean green water in one to 14 days , and all of the units supplied should perform this task if matched to the right size of pond . |
| 23 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 24 | Pizza is not one of the lowest-calorie dishes you might order , but ounce-for-ounce it can be quite healthy if made with the right ingredients . |
| 25 | Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel , bouncing around and looking for the right number … |
| 26 | It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time . |
| 27 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you realise you probably have information which , if offered to the right people , could make you one hell of a lot of money ? ’ |
| 29 | Gadgets are useful in professional hands and used in the right way , but in the hands of a novice they can be dangerous . |
| 30 | I believe that she had , as she said , seen every point that I had wished to make , and had laughed and cried at the right places . |