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

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1 After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction .
2 It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie .
3 Little knock on the right place … ’
4 Right place at the right time .
5 Another major target has been the National University of El Salvador ( UES ) , long regarded by the right wing as a ‘ subversive ’ institution .
6 Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one .
7 ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price .
8 I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole .
9 He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’
10 if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on
11 Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale .
12 We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week .
13 Just click at the right time
14 Twelve hours just to get in the right position
15 While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump .
16 The illuminated sail was reversible , so that it always sailed in the right direction to ensure authenticity .
17 The possibilities of this type of exercise are endless , but it must always used in the right way in order to help you press forward into even more effective speechreading .
18 Bryan Gould is as good as gold and Gerald Kaufman is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who 's still waiting for the right girl to come along .
19 She says she 's still waiting for the right man . ’
20 A husband who tells his wife about his redundancy does not always meet with the right kind of sympathy or support .
21 Erm , like getting to the right thing
22 He 's 17 , admits that in the past he has n't always remained on the right side of the law , but is now staying off the streets , with the help of the trax project .
23 Once infected by the right sort of dust , a new stream starts to grow crystals of dam-making clay , and the whole depositing , damming , drying , eroding cycle begins again .
24 In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving .
25 Madrid is also seen as the right venue for other reasons .
26 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 .
27 The application of techniques 1 : the attacker and defender both begin in the right stance .
28 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 .
29 Artegall fights as a skilful mariner controls his vessel in a storm ( V , XII , 18 ) and defeats the giant by carefully watching for the right advantage .
30 In particular , Milner , Taylor and Sperry ( 1968 ) and Sparks and Geschwind ( 1968 ) found that split-brain patients were able to repeat digits presented to either ear alone but showed almost total absence of report of digits presented to the left ear when different digits were simultaneously presented to the right ear .
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