Example sentences of "found the right " in BNC.

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1 Then , without thinking , she found the right corridor .
2 By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light .
3 ‘ Well — I never found the right woman .
4 The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay .
5 Someday , if ever I found the right producer and a label were interested , I 'd like to give that a shot . ’
6 Trevor wanted to get married , but never found the right girl .
7 With the help of a night nurse he found the right room and tiptoed in .
8 Not that Paracelsus always found the right ones : One wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of mercury to clarify the spleen .
9 In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya .
10 He sure as hell found the right one if anonymity is what he 's after .
11 When I arrived at the shelter , I found the right man .
12 For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication .
13 They found the right house , and climbed the dark stairs to a miserable little room .
14 At last she found the right room .
15 He found the right formula with ‘ Killer ’ , but how effective will the rest of his samples prove ?
16 And worse , before an extraction he used to clank about in a tin box , producing a series of hideous forceps and examining them , whistling softly , till he found the right one .
17 At last I found the right place on an island off the north coast .
18 Glancing over , she saw he was deep in conversation , so she found the right amount and paid .
19 For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees .
20 Ivan 's dictates on balanced tackle were instrumental in my discarding unsuitable ledger rods before I found the right one .
21 Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume .
22 It 's amazing what people would do , he said , if you found the right place to push .
23 He found the right formula with ‘ Killer ’ , but how effective will the rest of his samples prove ?
24 Of course , if she found the right man , and she loved him — Now why did she suddenly think of David Kent ?
25 LABORATORY analyst Emma Lawrie found the right formula for courage when she hurled herself out of an aircraft at 2,200ft .
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