Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 3 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 4 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 5 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 6 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 7 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
| 8 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 9 | Tell me I had done the right thing . |
| 10 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
| 11 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
| 12 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 13 | I had forgotten the other thing that Neil had told me . |
| 14 | That was on the Friday evening and by Monday I had put the whole thing out of my head and into the category of satisfying memories when the boy came in with Duke on the lead . |