Example sentences of "[adv] in [pos pn] right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she heard the sound of the Holy Ghost , which was like a pair of bellows in her ear , though it later turned into the sound of a dove , then of a robin that sang only in her right ear . |
| 2 | I 'm thankful for my good health , you see , because apart from arthritis , you see , I 'm as well as anything and I hope I 'm still in my right mind , you see , but I , now and again , I forget names |
| 3 | So Zaria sat in the back , opened the glass screen and whispered frantically in my right ear all the way home . |
| 4 | On Hilda Machin 's nodding , Mr Kronweiser calmly took back the copy of the short story and the original manuscript , clipped them together , and put them back carefully in their right place in the drawer . |
| 5 | And the traditional form of greeting you 've just seen " — he paused and grasped his left hand loosely in his right fist in imitation of the Annamese — " is employed to denote respect from an inferior to a superior . " |
| 6 | He was down on his haunches , looking comfortable and wearing a slight smile , the gun held loosely in his right hand . |
| 7 | Making sure the grapnel was free , he swung it loosely in his right hand , retaining the coiled rope in his left . |
| 8 | On a rapid return journey he took the catch of the series so far in his right glove while airborne . |
| 9 | Doyle stood in the doorway , a baseball bat clenched tightly in his right hand . |
| 10 | ‘ If I feel the tension building up behind my temples , I hold the crystal tightly in my right hand and I can feel the pain slowly seeping away . ’ |
| 11 | [ After ten seconds ] And now we are going to create tension again in your right hand by making a fist … |
| 12 | Liz Spalding crouched on the landing , thirty-eight calibre pistol held firmly in her right hand , left hand on the stair rail , ready to drag herself into a standing position the moment Weaver came into her sight . |
| 13 | He grasped his penis firmly in his right hand and agitated it . |