Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , then half an hour after Albert rung up to say that you were n't coming to work , so I were right in shit ! |
| 2 | ‘ Knew I was right . |
| 3 | I was right about the shop selling string , and I buy a nice ball of it — all clean and white . |
| 4 | I caught at the word , as I was right to do . |
| 5 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 6 | I was right . |
| 7 | No , damn it , I was right . |
| 8 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 9 | Forty years later I am still sure I was right . |
| 10 | So I was right . |
| 11 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 12 | I still think I was right . |
| 13 | ‘ People might have though it was a stupid statement at the time — now they know I was right , ’ added Keegan who has named an unchanged team . |
| 14 | After coffee he drew me aside , quietly admitted I was right , and agreed that Roald Dahl must withdraw . |
| 15 | He reread the appropriate chapter , and acknowledged that I was right . |
| 16 | I just felt this was too good to last and I was right . |
| 17 | Isobel smiled and said : ‘ No , I told you it was a good book , and I was right . |
| 18 | I was right . |
| 19 | And I think I was right to make the equation between ‘ look like ’ and ‘ be ’ because a woman is what she looks like . |
| 20 | But I was right . |
| 21 | ‘ I was right , was n't I ? ’ he murmured nervously . |
| 22 | I thought I recognised his face , and I was right , for Alec said , ‘ Yes , he came in with ‘ flu symptoms about a fortnight ago . |
| 23 | If I was right in supposing this to be the nub of his argument , then a prior question to be considered was : ‘ Do people in fact suppose themselves to be justified in using the word ‘ hot ’ of material things , like fires , because they think there is something in the fire like what is in them when they feel hot ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So you think I was right ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Sounds as though I was right when I decided to poke into the activities of INCUBUS — and Hauser … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He said I was right , ’ replies John Singleton , a man with no room for doubt . |
| 27 | Danny , I was right . |
| 28 | I now wonder if I was right to do this . |
| 29 | In a way I was right . |
| 30 | I thought something was going on , said Esther , and it appears I was right . |