Example sentences of "not [verb] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a good dog has been ruined when he has done something good and , for some reason , not received the right response from the handler ; in other words , the wrong association has been created . |
| 2 | ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said . |
| 3 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 4 | She complained that it was not feminine — a woman should show off her waist — and therefore did not convey the right image . |
| 5 | In other words , if a minister does not know the right question to ask MI5 about a particular operation or allegation then MI5 will not volunteer any information on its own . |
| 6 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 7 | The organisers did not provide the right equipment for the Stourbridge band . |
| 8 | She did n't have any idea of the way you eased into queries of this sort , and to have a jukebox banging out the Rolling Stones would not provide the right background . |
| 9 | yeah , if a single carriageway or has four more lanes , do not use the right hand path , you use that one and that one , but do n't use them two |
| 10 | No , what I meant was I meant to buy it , I wanted to buy a refill for it , but I ended up not buying the right fibre tip pen for it |
| 11 | As I grow chrysanths we have to do erm I 'm not getting the right word . |
| 12 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 13 | I telephoned Burakovsky , who ordered the child to be brought in , examined her , but said there was nothing they could do because , unfortunately , they did not have the right kind of specialists . |
| 14 | Some of the smaller , poorer countries may not have the right equipment or training for the new types of job . |
| 15 | He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ . |
| 16 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 18 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 19 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |
| 20 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
| 21 | Other animals living today are , in some sense , failed evolutionary experiments that approximate to us but do not reach the right level . |
| 22 | It is false economy not to get the right expert , even though getting the right expert may be more expensive . |
| 23 | But in an election the facts speak for themselves ; if you do not get the right message across to the right people , you lose . |
| 24 | Fletcher is clearly concerned that some of England 's key players would not get the right amount of rest before the start of the new season . |
| 25 | He had not learned the right lesson , however , nor did he have a solution to the problem that would be posed by the mud created by rain and his own artillery . |
| 26 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 27 | We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them . |
| 28 | It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is . |
| 29 | I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer . |
| 30 | I 'm sure they are in a mess and perhaps you will not find the right thing , after all . ’ |