Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things which had bewildered him were clear as crystal , problems which had daunted and defied him gave like locks opening to the right key . |
| 2 | Stitch braid or fringing to the right side on the lower edge . |
| 3 | Or at least make sure you are listening to the right station . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm going to the right place now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host . |
| 9 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 10 | At that time , Graham was a left-hander switching to the right hand when he became a professional . |
| 11 | At the moment they 're leading by three goals to two as now plays it away to this right hand side to Stewart , makes a charge forward , he 's taking on Chris , he 's getting to the right edge of the penalty area , he crosses low with his right boot , chance for in the area , he turned quickly on it but he blasted the t the shot over the top of the bar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Erm , like getting to the right thing |
| 14 | Well they 're getting to the right temperature he said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're coming to the right turn . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ All who have become aware of the plight of Tony Bland and the anguish of his parents will have been moved by the agony of their dilemma and the acute difficulty of coming to the right decision . |
| 18 | So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying . |
| 19 | When all the guttering is in place you can start on the downpipes These are generally fixed from the ground working upwards , but you must make sure that you are working to the right line if ( as is common ) the guttering is offset from the wall . |