Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 2 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 3 | ‘ John Major began to put across the right message on Europe , ’ the former Prime Minister said . |
| 4 | ‘ Credibility ’ now meant working with the right video producer , clothes designer and hair stylist . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 6 | It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 8 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 9 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 10 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 11 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 12 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 13 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 14 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 15 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 16 | Although Darwin had turned in the right direction , he could do very little with mind and culture during his lifetime for the same reason that he was helpless before the mysteries of heredity : the basic information and modes of thought were lacking to produce the stable foundation which he correctly viewed as essential . |
| 17 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 18 | By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task . |
| 19 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 20 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 21 | Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit . |
| 22 | Claudia held on to her temper with an effort ; it was bad enough that Dana had leapt to the right conclusion without her confirming it . |
| 23 | It was discovered that the five year contract he had signed with the right wing government three days before the general elections entitled him to £724,000 . |
| 24 | She mounted the steps to the front door of the house and stood looking for the right bell to ring . |