Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 2 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 3 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 4 | As for the progress of the summit talks , the President insisted only that they " were on the right track " . |
| 5 | Now on Friday we were saying that Gloucester were on the right track … that West Hartlepool would be railroaded by them on saturday … bad news … the cherry and whites suffered a points failure … they went and lost by six points to twenty one |
| 6 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 7 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 8 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 9 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 10 | She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path . |
| 11 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 12 | No difference was found between the two groups with a lesion situated in the left hemisphere , but non-right handers , as a group , were significantly impaired on every test in comparison with right handers when the lesion was on the right side . |
| 13 | Mr. Farr 's garden was on the right hand side at the end of the footpath and must have been almost an acre in extent . |
| 14 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 15 | I thought it was on the right hand side as you went into village . |
| 16 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 17 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 18 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 19 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 20 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 21 | He hoped the man was on the right track and did his best to believe that he was . |
| 22 | Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track . |
| 23 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 24 | It was n't an enjoyable period of his life , but he stuck it out , certain that he was on the right track . |