Example sentences of "the right time [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
2 They had found a witness who confirmed that one of their prime suspects had left the party at the right time to murder Nicola .
3 Perhaps now was the right time to ask Rohmer just what the hell he really was , just what the hell was really going on … ?
4 This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe .
5 Getting your supporters enthusiastic at the right time requires strategy and planning and that is a political weakness in the UK .
6 ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’
7 Courageous decisions are nevertheless sometimes called for , so is this the right time to appoint a computer industry outsider to te top job at IBM ?
8 IS THIS the right time to invest in the property market ?
9 Then he landed in Oxford just at the right time to go out to the factory and it was open , and you had to get your car as soon as you could and see that everything was all right .
10 Catherine agreed that now was the right time to go there .
11 He repeated , together with the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Mrs Mairhi Trickett , that seven o'clock in the morning was the right time to take the children , as it was a time when families would all be together .
12 It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled .
13 He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself .
14 ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone .
15 Yet they all move together in the right way at the right time to carry out part of a complicated manoeuvre .
16 He moves forward minimally , to the right place , at the right time to maximise this .
17 ‘ I 've often watched you in the past and wondered how you know exactly the right time to enter the bidding , the right time to leave , ’ Moran praised .
18 There are so many versions of it already , and now does n't seem the right time to do it — I think I would rather wait until I was more established , and have something different to say about it . ’
19 That 's the right time to do it Lynda , to win the game
20 I should n't worry about it in this wind , anyway it 's not the right time to do it in the wind , as cold as this , is it really ?
21 He also emphasizes that the chief executive should take into account the power structure of the organization , be careful to choose the right time to promote initiatives , and , in particular , avoid committing himself publicly to a specific objective or action until he knows that it is definitely what he wants and that he can get the support .
22 Since fertilisation is external , with the male 's sperm being shed over the eggs as they are laid , amplexus ensures that the male is in the right place at the right time to fertilise the eggs .
23 If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born .
24 Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’
25 But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago .
26 Life in this part of Poland is changing rapidly and now is the right time to see it and to meet the Polish people who live here or those on holiday from the cities .
27 Always a favourite in London , the Russian star who opted for the West in 1974 is now in his mid-forties — absolutely the right time to change over to a repertoire well within his present compass .
28 So the criminals move freely around the galaxy , pursing their profession , and the FedPol must swallow its frustration and hope one day to be in the right place at the right time to catch a big-time wrong-doer in the act .
29 Anchorians peaked at just the right time to win Division A of the Peroni League , while Oxford University have one of the country 's best outdoor coaches pulling the strings .
30 And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No .
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