Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] right thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 2 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 3 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd said the right thing . |
| 5 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 6 | And immediately wondered if she 'd said the right thing , for Lubor wasted no time in asking , ‘ And what are you going to do today ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 8 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 9 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 14 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 15 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you have decided to do the right thing , ’ said Holmes . |
| 17 | I like to see the right thing being done . |
| 18 | He will have done the right thing . |
| 19 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 20 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 21 | His hands relaxed from their tight grip on the steering-wheel ; she must have said the right thing for once . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , that was good , ’ he replied in answer to this , and she glowed with pleasure at having said the right thing . |
| 23 | I never got a chance to defend myself and I would n't have known the right thing to say if I had . |
| 24 | I did do the right thing , did n't I ? ’ |
| 25 | I had an hour 's talk with him , he impressed me very much ; he wishes to do the right thing . |
| 26 | And with the other emotions , too , happiness follows doing the right thing biologically . |
| 27 | This means doing the right thing to meet their needs . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So I think we 've done the right thing . |