Example sentences of "[verb] the right thing " in BNC.

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31 However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him .
32 Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing .
33 So I suppose it 's what she wanted and she 's done the right thing .
34 Tell me I had done the right thing .
35 Now she stood , quite literally , on the threshold of a new life , hesitating , wondering even now if she had done the right thing .
36 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 .
37 I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first .
38 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 .
39 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 .
40 Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing .
41 Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing .
42 So I think we 've done the right thing .
43 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 .
44 However much it hurt , she had done the right thing .
45 ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing .
46 I 'm not sure if I 've done the right thing . ’
47 Had she done the right thing ?
48 Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel .
49 She had done the right thing and Robert 's note promised friendliness .
50 ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing .
51 that Stuart 's done the right thing .
52 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 .
53 He 'd done the right thing .
54 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
55 If the editor decides to invert the press release , you 've actually done the right thing in putting your good point first .
56 She was n't going to let Miguel know how anxious she was to choose the right thing to wear — fashionable yet not forward , pretty but not overdressed .
57 We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too .
58 That she 'd done what she 'd done — made this Will , that is — not to spite him but because it seemed the right thing .
59 It seemed the right thing to do , though he could not have said why .
60 Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do .
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