Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] right [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying for the right jobs |
| 2 | DRIVING ON THE RIGHT LINES ? |
| 3 | It is these needs rather than those of the plant which have left us still looking for the right materials . |
| 4 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
| 5 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett began slowly , ‘ the House of Comyn and that of Bruce must , er — , ’ the English clerk paused , searching for the right words . |
| 7 | Emily paused , angrily searching for the right words . |
| 8 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 9 | Fenella and Caspar both knelt down , taking a gentle hold of the Tree Spirits ' maimed branches , searching for the right words to convey their gratitude . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ she frowned , searching for the right words . |
| 11 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 12 | Lucy remained silent , searching for the right words to soften Bertha 's attitude . |
| 13 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 14 | I think we 're developing along the right lines , Elinor . |
| 15 | The pupae can remain dormant for months , or even years , waiting for the right vibrations , which is why a person moving into a previously empty house may suffer a plague of fleas . |
| 16 | ‘ But now it 's becoming so expensive to make programmes we are being forced into making sure we are going along the right lines . |
| 17 | I 've read about Mr help line , I did n't realise he had a direct connection to the almighty but he 's obviously got his instructions and erm we are very pleased that he 's going along the right lines . |
| 18 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 19 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 20 | The hardest part is getting into the right positions to do that . |
| 21 | I 'm getting into the right positions , but I 've got to start finishing them off . ’ |
| 22 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 23 | Paul Walton , of James Capel , complained that the Chancellor did not make big enough increases in spending in the right areas . |
| 24 | Now it 's not John Major and it 's not Martin Brandon Bravo and it 's not the Sheriff although we 're thinking on the right lines there , and it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough and it certainly is n't Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either . |
| 25 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |
| 26 | 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 . |