Example sentences of "[be] do the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ! |
2 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
8 | But , we 're doing the right thing for |
9 | The draught from that 's , yeah so you 're not sure whether you 're doing the right thing or not |
10 | You think you 're doing the right thing by eating olive oil pure oils but |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
14 | Earlier , at the start of the FACE photo shoot , the actor had confided , ‘ I 'm not sure I am doing the right thing . ’ |
15 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | In by-elections , county elections and in the European Parliament elections , the public , he said , was telling Labour : ‘ You are doing the right thing . |
18 | Remember that your colleagues need your reassurance too , to confirm that they are doing the right thing . |
19 | ‘ Cleo , have you asked yourself whether you are doing the right thing ? ’ he asked . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ What I do is follow the money and make sure the people who are spending it on my behalf are actually the right sort of people , and are doing the right sort of job . ’ |
22 | I 'm not even sure that I 'm doing the right course . |
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 . |