Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura had never had any doubts that she 'd made the right decision . |
| 2 | She 'd said the right thing . |
| 3 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 4 | And immediately wondered if she 'd said the right thing , for Lubor wasted no time in asking , ‘ And what are you going to do today ? ’ |
| 5 | If you 'd said the right things at |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 7 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 8 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 9 | And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible . |
| 10 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 11 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 12 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 13 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 14 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 15 | Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm |
| 16 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 17 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |
| 18 | On this occasion the N1 cam was to the right of centre and I 'd knitted the right side of the neck correctly , with no problem . |
| 19 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 20 | He was brilliant : he 'd assembled the right elements . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I 'd be beaten , ’ Turi said , ‘ but I began to realise I 'd chosen the right route by not cutting inside fences . |
| 22 | After he had taxied in to the terminal and parked the plane , he had checked the right engine and its hydraulic system with one of the Aeroflot engineers . |
| 23 | Switching on the television set to watch a modern Boat Race , I recall the heated passions aroused among small boys in the early 1930s as we waited to learn whether we had picked the right shade of blue . |
| 24 | It was inevitable yesterday , as Gordon Brown gave his performance , that Labour 's backbenchers were wondering whether they had picked the right man . |
| 25 | They would n't have minded so much if 63-year-old Dave had picked the right offices . |
| 26 | Judge Wroath had applied the right test and come to a decision which he was entitled to come to on the evidence before him . |
| 27 | If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman . |
| 28 | Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II . |
| 29 | The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam . |
| 30 | No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon . |