Example sentences of "was [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 2 | We need , last year , fo we found ab was about the right length . |
| 3 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 4 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 5 | it existed , in reality , because Ford needed something special to tempt people into their showrooms and Shelby was in the right place at the right time to provide it . |
| 6 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 7 | This particular campaign may have failed but Paisley had demonstrated that his heart was in the right place . |
| 8 | From Becher 's second-time I was always just struggling , though jumping the third-last I was in the right position and had every chance . |
| 9 | However he just put in a test dose to see if it was in the right place . |
| 10 | Charman , who originally considered himself a bass player , was not sure whether he was in the right band . |
| 11 | His heart was in the right place . |
| 12 | When he was sure that Zhukov was in the right position , Kirov let him go . |
| 13 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 14 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 15 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 16 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 17 | Old Red was in the right age-group and free . |
| 18 | of the feeling of expectancy if the wind was in the right direction . |
| 19 | I blinked twice , not sure that I was in the right country . |
| 20 | On the platform she was not at all sure that she was in the right place . |
| 21 | If your cigarette went out the screws would come back and light it if they was in the right frame of mind : all depends who was on . |
| 22 | It was all nonsense , but it was in the right language and Miles was impressed . |
| 23 | He stood in it , his clothes and skin steaming , dripping water into the urine-scented callbox , called her number , listened to it ring , called again , saying the numbers to himself like a chant , making sure his finger was in the right hole on the dial each time . |
| 24 | It was in the right place at the right time , and the underground press , in the United States , was born . |
| 25 | The young South African concluded he was in the right place , and at the right time . |
| 26 | Sec. , crafty devil , was in the right place at the right time when the service train arrived at Deeside Halt , and had a footplate ride on ‘ Foxcote Manor ’ on the run round . |
| 27 | The one exception came just seconds from half-time when the defence was slow to mop up the danger when Richardson 's corner was only parried , and Alan Dowd was in the right place to equalise . |
| 28 | The doctor said the baby was a nice size and he was in the right position . |
| 29 | The wind was in the right direction , and she heard it strike ten — and then eleven . |
| 30 | Chris Fry was in the right place at the right time . |