Example sentences of "doing the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not even sure that I 'm doing the right course . |
| 2 | ‘ What I do is follow the money and make sure the people who are spending it on my behalf are actually the right sort of people , and are doing the right sort of job . ’ |
| 3 | Though it is never possible to be sure one is doing the right thing , he wrote . |
| 4 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 5 | In by-elections , county elections and in the European Parliament elections , the public , he said , was telling Labour : ‘ You are doing the right thing . |
| 6 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 7 | Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially . |
| 8 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 9 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 10 | Happiness is an emotional response that has become built into us and the horse for doing the right thing biologically . |
| 11 | And with the other emotions , too , happiness follows doing the right thing biologically . |
| 12 | Dr. Briant is doing the right thing — doing his own job to the best of his ability and leaving the rest of it to the people he 's doing it for — you . ’ |
| 13 | It always seems funny when a Rottweiler guards for the first time , barking loudly , usually backing off , not quite sure if he is doing the right thing . |
| 14 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 15 | If God would provide accommodation for my family while I was away , preferably with friends , and convince my parents that I was doing the right thing , then I would know that the trip was on . |
| 16 | The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should . |
| 17 | He hesitated , wondering if he was doing the right thing by telling her . |
| 18 | This means doing the right thing to meet their needs . |
| 19 | You may feel rather unsure of what you want in life mid-June , Capricorn , but by the end of the month , you will know that you 're doing the right thing ! |
| 20 | I 'm doing the right thing , thought Lee . |
| 21 | ‘ If you stopped shopping the IRA would think they were doing the right thing , ’ said Susan Wooldridge , 47 , of Hungerford , Berks . |
| 22 | That , says Prue , helped convince her partners she was doing the right thing . |
| 23 | Stone said nothing for a moment , staring at the CI5 man , perhaps still not sure of whether or not he was doing the right thing . |
| 24 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 25 | Earlier , at the start of the FACE photo shoot , the actor had confided , ‘ I 'm not sure I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 26 | The length of time spent ‘ working ’ ( ie doing the right thing ) is certainly recordable . |
| 27 | I wanted to be sure that I was doing the right thing and would n't regret it . |
| 28 | Remember that your colleagues need your reassurance too , to confirm that they are doing the right thing . |
| 29 | Doing all that means doing the Right Thing , and any such notion , in life or in fiction , depends on a shared acceptance of what the Right Thing is . |
| 30 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |