Example sentences of "[vb past] it be the right [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’
2 You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time .
3 We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do .
4 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
5 whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do .
6 ( 43 ) * We thought it be the right choice .
7 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 ?
8 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 .
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