Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [art] right " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I reckon , ’ said Marie slowly , ‘ that you must think I 'm a right idiot . ’
2 As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no .
3 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 . ’
4 " Do n't you know which is the right one yet ? "
5 She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said .
6 ‘ He will know what is the right thing to do and so will the people who manage the building where the fight is being held . ’
7 I hope I 'm the right person . ’
8 However , believing something is the right thing to do in principle is very different from actually doing it oneself .
9 Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee .
10 Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’
11 Heg says it 's the right wan . ’
12 Hope it 's the right room , ’ he said cheerfully .
13 And a lot of people answering that question will just assume it 's a right angle
14 Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . "
15 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
16 Because er there 's too much , because they did n't like the way things were run , something like that and on occasions we have had to say to people , we 're sorry , we just do n't think you 're the right kind of person for us .
17 We 've researched who are the right people to fix Marshalls , to fix Voxes and to fix Stratocasters .
18 I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said .
19 My family and friends were very supportive throughout the divorce because they could see it was the right thing as we were n't making each other happy .
20 I own a 1979 Range Rover , chassis number 35857365F , and have been told it is a right hand drive export model .
21 A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer .
22 They 're gon na think we 're a right bunch of swearing pigs on there !
23 Only you know which are the right questions for you to attempt .
24 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 .
25 I know it was the right thing to do .
26 The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body , so that if the left brain is damaged it is the right side of the body which is paralysed .
27 So we go , we knock at the door , we assume it 's the right address , he comes to the door and what will be the first thing you should say ?
28 Yeah I heard it were a right frigging had an argument with Chinese bloke
29 And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity .
30 One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people .
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