Example sentences of "got it right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likening Tony Benn to the Erich Honeker of the Labour Party , he said the left-wing MP got it right when , after the multilateralist vote , he commented : ‘ Who will believe us on this ? |
| 2 | Following the first crude attempts by Giotto , Lorenzetti and others , Brunelleschi got it right . |
| 3 | THIS year 's flu forecasters got it right . |
| 4 | Within weeks , Time Out had an article written by London playwright and football fan Mick Mahoney who got it right when he pointed out that ‘ if Nike brought out a crocodile-skin trainer for £140 , it would be a smash ’ . |
| 5 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 6 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 7 | Next time , of course , we got it right . |
| 8 | But eventually I got it right , I had to — I could n't do the advanced course without the basic one under my belt . |
| 9 | ‘ So for once the met forecast people got it right . |
| 10 | Summarize what the candidate said to make sure that I got it right ? |
| 11 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 12 | John Dower , the father of the National Parks , got it right when he said that we look to the farming communities for the continuance not only of the landscape but of the drama itself , rural life and work . |
| 13 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 14 | Nobody 's mother ever got it right . |
| 15 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 16 | Lawmakers got it right |
| 17 | Paul Smith has , as usual , got it right . |
| 18 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 19 | I wonder what that did to you , especially the daily nagging and complaining until you got it right . ’ |
| 20 | But where the mighty minds of the world failed dismally , the Mirror got it right . |
| 21 | On certain occasions we got it right , but at other times it was a joke . |
| 22 | Very few of the seers got it right . |
| 23 | ISABEL WOLFF BELIEVES THE NOBEL COMMITTEE GOT IT RIGHT THIS TIME … |
| 24 | Bomber Command got it right two weeks later ! |
| 25 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 26 | ‘ I only ever met one who got it right ’ , he says , ‘ and he was an Abo called Albert out of Hermannsburg . |
| 27 | The legendary American publisher Bill Targ got it right : ‘ The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so . ’ |
| 28 | If they did not know the word less , their responses followed a pattern of chance responding ; if they did know it , they got it right nearly all the time . |
| 29 | Moderator if the Board wanted a patron saint , my sole nominee would certainly be the good Samaritan cos he got it right . |
| 30 | That 's how we got it right and that 's how it finished up taking $180 million worldwide . |