Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He will know what is the right thing to do and so will the people who manage the building where the fight is being held . ’ |
| 4 | I hope I 'm the right person . ’ |
| 5 | However , believing something is the right thing to do in principle is very different from actually doing it oneself . |
| 6 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 7 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Hope it 's the right room , ’ he said cheerfully . |
| 9 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 10 | Because er there 's too much , because they did n't like the way things were run , something like that and on occasions we have had to say to people , we 're sorry , we just do n't think you 're the right kind of person for us . |
| 11 | We 've researched who are the right people to fix Marshalls , to fix Voxes and to fix Stratocasters . |
| 12 | I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said . |
| 13 | My family and friends were very supportive throughout the divorce because they could see it was the right thing as we were n't making each other happy . |
| 14 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 15 | Only you know which are the right questions for you to attempt . |
| 16 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 17 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 18 | The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body , so that if the left brain is damaged it is the right side of the body which is paralysed . |
| 19 | So we go , we knock at the door , we assume it 's the right address , he comes to the door and what will be the first thing you should say ? |
| 20 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 21 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ It 's the best legal advice I can give and I believe it is the right advice . ’ |
| 23 | Decide what is the right table ( A , B , or C ) to use . |
| 24 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 25 | Similarly , in the Oval Test , Sobers put in a prodigious spell of bowling , keeping at it because his captain felt he was the right bowler for the situation . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 27 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 28 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 29 | I had seen Come Blow Your Horn and kept my eye on what he was up to , and I knew he was the right person for that part . |
| 30 | whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do . |