Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I would be a very different person now if orange juice and milk and dinners at school had n't told me , in a covert way , that I had a right to exist , was worth something . |
| 2 | PAMELA : You know these things better than I , Mr. B. Yet , I thought I had a right to a little Free Will . |
| 3 | I had a right to know , a right ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 5 | I felt I had a right . |
| 6 | A campaign begun in 1971 to repeal the ban dating from 1935 culminated in the famous appeal of Mrs McGee to the Supreme Court to declare she had a right to use contraceptives . |
| 7 | ‘ She had been so brave and she had a right to know , to set her life in order just like anyone facing death . ’ |
| 8 | Her complaint was that she had the right to return to the job she had left : if this was not possible because of redundancy , she had a right under s 45(3) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 to be offered alternative employment if there was a suitable available vacancy . |
| 9 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 10 | She felt she was intruding ; but he was , after all , her brother and she had a right to intrude on him . |
| 11 | What I did n't realise was that she then felt she had a right to run my life . ’ |
| 12 | She had a right to ask him . |
| 13 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 14 | And she had a right to know the whole story . |
| 15 | She implied that she had a right to you last night . ’ |
| 16 | If I thought you were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me . |
| 17 | If a landowner suddenly challenged your right to continue canoeing on a favourite stretch of water how would you prove that you had a right to do so ? |
| 18 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 19 | We did n't think we had a right to judge . |
| 20 | People clung to our arms as we walked out and an Officer emptied Pernod over Gibeau 's tunic , telling him that it was Christmas and that we had a right to enjoy ourselves . |
| 21 | parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature |
| 22 | ‘ We had a right to know whose bastard we were fostering . ’ |
| 23 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 24 | If their new buildings did not look like churches they had a right to say that people should re-examine what they thought a church ought to look like . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , we 'd been so public I suppose everyone thought they had a right to make it their business , and what 's more according to us they did . ’ |
| 26 | The service standards could have been just circulated internally , but making them public meant everyone would know what level of service they had a right to expect from the police . |
| 27 | This division , which quite unintentionally put the uncharted territory of Brazil into the Portuguese section , encouraged the Spanish and Portuguese to believe that they had a right , backed by a religious authority recognized by every country in western Europe , to all land that did not have a settled and effective government , and that they were entitled to monopolize the trade of these new territories . |
| 28 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 29 | Norwich did not appeal , as they had a right to do , against the notice of 30 October 1990 . |
| 30 | Many carers , I have heard say , time and time again , that they feel guilty even asking they did n't even know they had a right to ask , well this legislation now allows people to ask , does n't mean to say their needs are gon na be met , but at least it gives them a right to ask . |