Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | I groped for the right word and found it' … |
| 3 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | You sure you got the right , you sure you sent off the right husband this morning ? |
| 7 | Are you sure you sent off the right husband ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 10 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 11 | With — ’ she searched for the right word . |
| 12 | She groped for the right word . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He sought for the right word . |
| 15 | He sought for the right phrase . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It came at the right time . |
| 18 | It seemed like the right sort of thing to say . |
| 19 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 20 | When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper . |
| 21 | When alphabetic material it exposed in the right field alone , the two tendencies will be acting together . |
| 22 | I feel … ’ he struggled for the right word ‘ … responsible . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face . |