Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] right [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction .
2 The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it .
3 First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests .
4 This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection .
5 And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’
6 Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time .
7 Note how the right leg is still flexed , but the see-saw has n't hit the ground , although the bulk of the body weight has transferred to the right side .
8 ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss .
9 Go late if you want to keep to the right hand side of the course and early if you want to use the left hand side .
10 It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception .
11 The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather .
12 Again the notebooks can be seen moving in the right direction with ‘ Svidrigailov : I 'm happy to go to America at once , but somehow nobody really wants to . ’
13 But those wanting to keep on the right side of the law will have to steer clear of the grape .
14 Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull .
15 It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment .
16 Now what 's going to happen along the right hand axis we go up to twenty and so we can go along there in twos and it 'll just fit on .
17 We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency .
18 ‘ John Major began to put across the right message on Europe , ’ the former Prime Minister said .
19 This is a relationship that always carries more seeds of hope in it than many others that break down ( or never get started on the right foot ) .
20 Whoever he finally chose would have to come from the right stable .
21 ‘ I was glad she accepted because otherwise I would have looked like a right banana in front of all those tourists . ’
22 They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that .
23 Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain .
24 You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association .
25 Out of sight of the child you pass the coin from the left to right hand and continue rubbing with the right hand only saying ‘ I think I can feel it coming ’ until eventually you say : ‘ There it is , it 's come back ! ’
26 Well this is the what I keep reading about the right left divide .
27 ‘ Credibility ’ now meant working with the right video producer , clothes designer and hair stylist .
28 ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point .
29 It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space .
30 Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool .
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