Example sentences of "[adv] the right thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having the bump out the front was so obviously the right thing at the right time . |
| 2 | Sometimes slime algae can be very difficult to shift , even though you do all the right things . |
| 3 | The coronation seemed to last for hours , but I managed to say and do all the right things . |
| 4 | They might turn up on time and do all the right things , or they might not . |
| 5 | ‘ It is morally the right thing to do , ’ said McFarlane , dropping it like a swift brick in among the parentheses and qualifications and regrets . |
| 6 | I , I think that was entirely the right thing to do , entirely the right thing to do . |
| 7 | I , I think that was entirely the right thing to do , entirely the right thing to do . |
| 8 | What I am saying is not that culling is necessarily the right thing , but that these are genuine detailed practicable problems which must not be dismissed , as if they were easy , by solutions of the kind that I have just suggested . |
| 9 | And it is her intuition that she is dependent on for finding just the right thing to muse about to the class in front of her . |
| 10 | Not for the first time , she wishes she had her sister 's confidence with men , her way of saying just the right thing in the right way to make them laugh , or listen , or love . |
| 11 | This means it is committed to doing exactly the right thing . |
| 12 | Most of the letters are straightforward and written in plain English ; the type that you may spend bags of time perfecting — Have I said exactly the right thing ? |
| 13 | So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying . |
| 14 | I have never heard anybody saying that it was er not the right thing to do . |
| 15 | She had no idea what to do ; somehow fighting was not the right thing at this moment . |
| 16 | This was apparently not the right thing to say . |
| 17 | It may well be that he considered that it was not the right thing for him to do , after all , he was a good Jew and why should he marry a Moabite . |
| 18 | Although there are times when pursuing litigation is tactically the right thing to do , and others when there is simply no realistic alternative , you need to be conscious of the possible drawbacks . |
| 19 | Was this really the right thing to be doing ? |
| 20 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 21 | Would n't the right thing be to write to London Transport withdrawing the complaint , and send a friendly letter to the conductor himself explaining the meaning of ‘ Ms ’ and asking his tolerance for opinions differing from his own ? |
| 22 | It was n't the right thing to do . |
| 23 | They 're very happy with manufacturing , but the selling of the product and the trading is not quite the right thing to do . |
| 24 | " I do n't know that that would be quite the right thing to do . " |
| 25 | This was quite the right thing to do in a coffee-bar in the King 's Road . |
| 26 | Something must have told him that he 'd not said quite the right thing , for he looked at Zeinab uneasily afterwards . |
| 27 | As Alexander was often heard to say — if you stop doing the wrong thing , then the right thing will emerge naturally . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you 're doing absolutely the right thing , Mrs Lomax , ’ she said gently . |