Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought for the right word . |
| 2 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 3 | He sought for the right phrase . |
| 4 | In his slow crawl from the corner as he peered for the right number through the flooding windscreen , it had seemed an odd neigh-bourhood for the Fight Game : well-weeded drives , well-painted houses , the cars as recommended by Which ? and Ratepayers ' Association posters in several windows . |
| 5 | ‘ It was banked and a pillar of smoke rose from the right wing . |
| 6 | This was an important loss of potential moderate middle class support , who moved to the right wing in opposition to the republic . |
| 7 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 8 | It seemed like the right sort of thing to say . |
| 9 | The illuminated sail was reversible , so that it always sailed in the right direction to ensure authenticity . |
| 10 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't realise , by the way , that Kathleen was a ‘ rebel ’ , but if so , — apart from Winnie perhaps — she came to the right house ( or House ) . |
| 12 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 13 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 15 | It came at the right time . |
| 16 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |
| 17 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 18 | With correct positioning , to ensure the join came at the right point with the stairs , and a generous overlap , we could cut the correct angle through both . |
| 19 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 20 | Then , by what actually occurs , you will be able to confirm that you have in fact turned in the right direction to reach your track . |
| 21 | When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper . |
| 22 | In a series ‘ designed to open the door to classical music ’ , it would help if the door led into the right house ! |
| 23 | The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views . |
| 24 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 25 | When alphabetic material it exposed in the right field alone , the two tendencies will be acting together . |
| 26 | As for the benign intent : whereas dashes for growth in the 1960s and early 1970s were engineered by governments that deliberately overestimated the economy 's ability to grow , last year 's boom was the result of a miscalculation , which probably erred on the right side . |
| 27 | A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself . |
| 28 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 29 | He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’ |
| 30 | The one in particular I 'm referring to you will see we 'd all see the Son of Man , they they 'd recognised that reference to himself Son of Man , they 'd recognised that because that comes out of the Old Testament Book of Daniel does n't it , the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty coming with the clouds of heaven . |