Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 2 | Are you looking at the right bit ? |
| 3 | Right , so we 're looking at the right price as well , O K , and what else are we looking for ? |
| 4 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 5 | If you jump , yes you 're looking at the right place , but you 've jumped ahead . |
| 6 | I thought you said Oaklahoma was on yesterday , are you looking at the right page ? |
| 7 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 8 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 9 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 10 | But getting at the right information , and making sense of it , is increasingly difficult . |
| 11 | As far as Veronica Totteridge was concerned , Theodora was staying at the right house , riding the right sort of horse . |
| 12 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 13 | Charlie could still picture the right waist gunner , Charles Paceley , standing at the right waist gun . |
| 14 | Standing at the right angle , we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice . |
| 15 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 16 | Additional airbrake should be available to make the glider stop floating at the right moment . |
| 17 | They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly . |
| 18 | Today it is one of the best automated factories in the world , with computer-controlled parts arriving at the right instant at each work station to churn out reliable personal computers ( ‘ PCs ’ ) for a market that is still growing . |
| 19 | Arriving at the right message , deciding who the right people are , and how to reach them , is a highly complex business , and the result is an advertising strategy for your client which is sound and provides a realistic and workable rationale for his campaign . |