Example sentences of "say [det] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Troilus and Cressida say all the right words when they are informed of the Trojan plan to retrieve Antenor , but the fact that they say so much , and use such perfectly formed phrases , invalidates the underlying emotions . |
| 2 | Say all the right things and . |
| 3 | Poor Mr Lamont did his best to rubbish what Mr Brown had argued , but his Shadow had said all the right things and hit all the sore spots . |
| 4 | A very high earner ( he reputedly landed the first £1 million brief in English legal history ) , he does not lack exposure : he recently appeared in a Panorama debate on Europe and this week he was saying all the right things about Neil Kinnock . |
| 5 | Oh , they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service . |
| 6 | The explorer said all the right things to Mr Major . |
| 7 | I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to . |