Example sentences of "hit the right " in BNC.

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1 Bell hopes to hit the right note again
2 Long-sighted people are unable to hit the right point in the eye too .
3 Long-sighted people are unable to hit the right point in the eye too .
4 Ian Gelder 's Hector , wax-moustached and posturingly heroic , and Marty Cruickshank 's Hesione , a bourgeois gypsy in full flight , also hit the right note .
5 He hit the right post with a penalty kick and the ball bounced almost square to the left .
6 That hit the right button .
7 It just hit the right spot .
8 SunSoft 's first attempt at courting major SCO distributors on behalf of Interactive Unix and Solaris-on-Intel apparently hit the right notes : After a session last month with the SCO Distributor Council ( UX No 385 ) , another meeting is being set up to look seriously into establishing a relationship .
9 T.V. is relatively difficult to get onto , in terms of you taking the initiatives , you contact the B B C or I T V and say , ‘ I have a thing which you ought to have , ’ and unless it 's really outstanding , the chances are relatively small of getting on unless you are very lucky or you know somebody or you just hit the right spot at the right time .
10 This means the vet has hit the right spot , but , despite giving the appearance of a canine pin cushion , it is obviously not too unpleasant an experience .
11 He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another .
12 Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target .
13 But I think Colin your main concern was n't it that perhaps we were n't hitting the right slots and ?
14 She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival .
15 We think evolution took place not by sort of hitting in one bang the right answer — that would be like the surgeon moving his scalpel a foot and hitting the right point , but by successive changes , changing one amino acid at a time , each change being a slight improvement on what was there before .
16 Occasionally , the film hits the right note , but mostly the disenchanted teenagers seem merely petulant , while the parents and shrinks are portrayed as either feckless drunks or mercenary medics .
17 Dmitry was the only one who was really … ’ — her voice trails off , but she hits the right phrase just before the thought disappears — ‘ … counting on it . ’
18 Josie Lawrence 's girlish reading is rather daunting at first but in fact hits the right note for this unexpectedly cheering and totally unsentimental little fable .
19 I think Dispatches has found its way into corners of the agenda that others have n't , and Panorama from time to time hits the right note .
20 he 'd hit the right side of his head .
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