Example sentences of "[pers pn] have done the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 2 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 3 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
| 4 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 5 | Tell me I had done the right thing . |
| 6 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure if I 've done the right thing . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing . |
| 10 | Mr Maurice Saatchi who now gets three hundred and ten thousand pounds a year compared with six hundred thousand pounds a year two years ago replied I 'm quite satisfied that involuntary taking a fifty per cent pay cut I have 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 | No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon . |
| 15 | They went on a honeymoon to India where Gould sulked profusely and Rebuck kept wondering if she had done the right thing . |
| 16 | Now she stood , quite literally , on the threshold of a new life , hesitating , wondering even now if she had done the right thing . |
| 17 | The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing . |
| 18 | When Liz 's twin baby girls were born Laura was convinced that she had done the right thing in keeping the full extent of her father 's illness and the subsequent disastrous financial mess from her cousin . |
| 19 | However much it hurt , she had done the right thing . |
| 20 | She had done the right thing and Robert 's note promised friendliness . |
| 21 | It sticks in my throat that you know we 've had to pay it but , from the point of view of the residents , we 've done the right thing by letting it . |
| 22 | So I think we 've done the right thing . |
| 23 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 24 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 27 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 28 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |