Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the right thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 4 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 5 | She said as she entered , ‘ My dears … ’ in a very English fashion , and she said all the usual phrases , and then to me , ‘ I hope you 're doing the right thing . ’ |
| 6 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 7 | So I believe we 're doing the right thing , I think it 's for the good of the country I think it 's for the good of the company and the shareholders . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
| 9 | But , we 're doing the right thing for |
| 10 | The draught from that 's , yeah so you 're not sure whether you 're doing the right thing or not |
| 11 | You think you 're doing the right thing by eating olive oil pure oils but |
| 12 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 13 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 14 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 15 | Earlier , at the start of the FACE photo shoot , the actor had confided , ‘ I 'm not sure I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In by-elections , county elections and in the European Parliament elections , the public , he said , was telling Labour : ‘ You are doing the right thing . |
| 19 | Remember that your colleagues need your reassurance too , to confirm that they are doing the right thing . |
| 20 | ‘ Cleo , have you asked yourself whether you are doing the right thing ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | If it is your first work of fiction of any great length , I think you are doing the right thing putting it forward for appraisal by the Eastern Arts Board , you are lucky in your part of the country to have this . |
| 22 | Being primed with the relevant background information can make you much more confident that you are saying the right thing to the right person . |
| 23 | I 'm doing the right thing , thought Lee . |
| 24 | Also make sure I 'm doing the right thing as well . |
| 25 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 26 | ‘ If you stopped shopping the IRA would think they were doing the right thing , ’ said Susan Wooldridge , 47 , of Hungerford , Berks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ You thought that you were doing the right thing . |
| 29 | Curator Andy Saunders commented that the Museum had been ‘ agonising after they had gone into the sale ’ if they were doing the right thing with WA984 and E-412 . |
| 30 | But the 27-year-old firmly believes he 's done the right thing . |