Example sentences of "[been] [verb] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 2 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 3 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 4 | As time passed , and the cost of making new recordings has increased , so that prophesy of about 1953 has been proved right . |
| 5 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 6 | And yesterday she had been proved right . |
| 7 | The sceptics have been proved right . |
| 8 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 9 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 10 | There is nothing as joyful for the opinionated as to have finally been proved right and I ca n't help but think there are many marginally employed musicians around Ireland today who weep or harrumph glumly into their pints when they think what might have happened if they 'd listened to Nicky . |
| 11 | Draper had tried to veto Event , and been proved right ; he had tried to veto Top Nosh , and been proved right on that too . |
| 12 | Draper had tried to veto Event , and been proved right ; he had tried to veto Top Nosh , and been proved right on that too . |
| 13 | He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body . |
| 14 | He had been proved right , but how could it be ? |
| 15 | Now that you 've been proved right ? ’ |
| 16 | We have been proved right . |
| 17 | That is what the Labour party said in 1988 and we have been proved right . |
| 18 | Ironically , the observations of Captain FitzRoy , the orthodox Creationist , had been proved right . |
| 19 | The school 's decision not to become involved in testing had been proved right . |
| 20 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 21 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 22 | A clear conscience is a transparency resulting from the knowledge that all past wrongs have been put right . |
| 23 | ‘ The mistake has been put right . |
| 24 | By now , anyone ill-informed enough to imagine some elderly Miss Whiplash will have been put right . |
| 25 | All the faults have been put right and everything in use is of proved value . |
| 26 | Lawton ended the conversation saying he would be back ‘ tomorrow ’ [ Friday ] to see if it had been put right . |
| 27 | He says that he 's advised the farm owner that conditions are n't up to scratch , he says he 'll return to check that things have been put right . |
| 28 | They had even been giving trouble during the morning and had still not been put right . |
| 29 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 30 | I would have fled if the Earl 's retainers had not been standing right behind me . |