Example sentences of "place at the [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no pecking order , it 's who is in the right place at the right time and who is the strongest , ’ he says . |
| 3 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 4 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 5 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 6 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |
| 7 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |