Example sentences of "at [adv] the right moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 2 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
| 3 | At exactly the right moment , just when Julia 's nervousness had reached its height , he looked up and fixed his prominent grey eyes on her , his handsome regular features flushed with temper . |
| 4 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 5 | He positively brims with charm , suggesting that , like the proverbial Don , he has the enviable ability to turn it on at just the right moment . |
| 6 | It used to be thought that the correct technique was to add positive pitch at just the right moment to give a survivable — if not gentle-landing . |
| 7 | If you have a strong stomach , pop into the Central Market ; the butchers and fishmongers can always spot a squeamish visitor and slaughter one of their victims at just the right moment . |
| 8 | Sandra and Fashion Editor Caroline Baker had lots of fun making sure the pictures were perfect — and that Alex and her furry friend looked at the camera at just the right moment ! |
| 9 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
| 10 | On television , detective series end at just the right moment , after the criminal has been caught and before the courts turn him loose . |
| 11 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 12 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 13 | It certainly seems to specialise in hitting nails on heads at just the right moment . |
| 14 | A large group in the opposite corner had erupted into laughter at just the right moment , to mask the sound of her action , however , and even those who had seen and heard were simply hiding slightly shocked and curious smiles behind polite hands and pretending to go on with their talk . |
| 15 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
| 16 | the system is set up so that the engine for each car arrives at just the right moment . ’ |
| 17 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 18 | At precisely the right moment , a heavily-built fellow with a black beard arrived and paced about , staring this way and that as if waiting impatiently for another to arrive . |
| 19 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |