Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] on the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 2 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 3 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 4 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 5 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 6 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 7 | She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path . |
| 8 | Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track . |
| 9 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 10 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 11 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 12 | I thought it was on the right hand side as you went into village . |
| 13 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 14 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 15 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 16 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 17 | It was n't an enjoyable period of his life , but he stuck it out , certain that he was on the right track . |