Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] track " in BNC.

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1 Stephen took them up the zig-zag track .
2 Were we on the right track at all ?
3 Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself .
4 They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ .
5 A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them .
6 It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men .
7 It also keeps me on the right track as well .
8 He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice .
9 But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager .
10 I walked towards him on the stony track
11 To hell with reason , she was scared today : what if she 'd lost her way , and nothing could put her on the right track .
12 She 'll set us on the right track . ’
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