Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the accent was no problem and I was the right age . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 3 | Obviously , they were so sure that I was the right person for the job , that they needed a second opinion . |
| 4 | ‘ I was the right person in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 5 | As Hector had judged , she was the right shape for it . |
| 6 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 7 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 8 | because I did n't think she was the right one for him , I would n't have picked her I 'd 've picked somebody else |
| 9 | They were the right sort of people — talented and with some experience , and willing to get their hands dirty . |
| 10 | If they were the right spots , and he handled them properly , he might manage to get his foot well into that door . |
| 11 | They were the right age , anyway , and they moved like athletes . |
| 12 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |
| 13 | ‘ Whether it was the right decision , only history will tell . |
| 14 | ‘ But then it was the right decision for the longer term , to bring down inflation . |
| 15 | I would find it very hard to follow gut feel if I could not put forward arguments on two sides of a sheet of paper as to why it was the right decision . |
| 16 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 17 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 18 | He would not have bought it had he been by himself but Maidstone assured him it was the right choice — ‘ Absolutely first rate , dear fellow . ’ |
| 19 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 20 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 21 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 22 | I explained that I had felt that it was the right thing to do ; it expressed what I felt . |
| 23 | Repeat after me : ‘ It was the right result on the day , Saint . |
| 24 | When it was the right shape she blew on it , then closed her fist around it and began to massage the bull 's neck and shoulders and back and rump , tapping it hard and rhythmically with the knuckles of the clenched fist . |
| 25 | It was as if he 'd made up his mind about something yet was not sure if it was the right thing to do . |
| 26 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 27 | My happiness and progress and education could depend on my own activity — as long as it was the right activity at the right time . |
| 28 | ‘ It was the right thing at the right time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 30 | ‘ It was the right time to get married . |