Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 32 | I feel … ’ he struggled for the right word ‘ … responsible . ’ |
| 33 | You sure you got the right , you sure you sent off the right husband this morning ? |
| 34 | Are you sure you sent off the right husband ? |
| 35 | The skill of Hollywood was ensuring that the right actor went into the right story . |
| 36 | Connelly deserved more reward for his efforts as he ceaselessly pushed forward and played some excellent one twos with the front runners , but it was not until the seventy ninth minute that Abingdon sealed the result ; Herbert crossed from the right wing and Aries won a challenge in the air to get a glancing header which Green turned on to the post , but the ball rebounded over the line to make it three nil . |
| 37 | Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place . |
| 38 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 39 | The fears that BSL consists of a limited , concrete visual language localised in the right hemisphere , can be discounted . |
| 40 | If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment . |
| 41 | With — ’ she searched for the right word . |
| 42 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 43 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 44 | He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head . |
| 45 | Among left handed writers defects of verbal comprehension were more frequent than among those who wrote with the right hand . |
| 46 | In the split second he woke he felt wonderfully light and at ease , comfortable in his skin , all his limbs absolutely relaxed in the right order and oh so comfortable where they were . |
| 47 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 48 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 49 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 50 | She groped for the right word . |
| 51 | I groped for the right word and found it' … |
| 52 | However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face . |
| 53 | The arrow pointed in the right direction , but ten feet past it , without the compass , which way was north ? |
| 54 | Tip is a firm believer in fate , and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him . |
| 55 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 56 | for a time , the only way I could communicate was to spell out words letter by letter by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card . |
| 57 | McIntyre pointed to the right hand . |
| 58 | Joey Beauchamp sparkled on the right wing . |
| 59 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |