Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [art] right [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests .
2 This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection .
3 And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’
4 Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time .
5 It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception .
6 It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment .
7 ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point .
8 It appeared to have arrived at the right time .
9 Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him .
10 Aunt Fosters had died at the right time .
11 Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit .
12 It will soon learn to walk at the right pace .
13 If you have played DEFECT ( this means we have to look at the right hand column ) , the best card I could have played would have been DEFECT too .
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