Example sentences of "do the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 32 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 33 | So I think we 've done the right thing . |
| 34 | When Liz 's twin baby girls were born Laura was convinced that she had done the right thing in keeping the full extent of her father 's illness and the subsequent disastrous financial mess from her cousin . |
| 35 | However much it hurt , she had done the right thing . |
| 36 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 37 | I 'm not sure if I 've done the right thing . ’ |
| 38 | Had she done the right thing ? |
| 39 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 40 | She had done the right thing and Robert 's note promised friendliness . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing . |
| 42 | that Stuart 's done the right thing . |
| 43 | Mr Maurice Saatchi who now gets three hundred and ten thousand pounds a year compared with six hundred thousand pounds a year two years ago replied I 'm quite satisfied that involuntary taking a fifty per cent pay cut I have done the right thing . |
| 44 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 45 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 46 | If the editor decides to invert the press release , you 've actually done the right thing in putting your good point first . |
| 47 | What was unnatural has become natural , you do n't have to think about it , your body will do the right thing in the right way , like breathing . |
| 48 | ‘ We can do it if the leadership of this nation will just stand up and do the right thing . ’ |
| 49 | No doubt the good doctor will always do the right thing , but can what the right thing is be stipulated in advance or written down ? |
| 50 | Some parents worry that rewarding good behaviour is a type of bribery , and believe that a child should do the right thing as a matter of course , simply because it is right . |
| 51 | As adults we have active consciences which help us do the right thing . |
| 52 | I did do the right thing , did n't I ? ’ |
| 53 | Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away . |
| 54 | As managers , we hope that they will do the right thing . |
| 55 | I 'm sure you 'll do The Right Thing . ’ |
| 56 | If ethics and the interests of the business conflict , managers and employees are invariably told that they must always do the right thing — for no other reason than that it is right . |
| 57 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 58 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 59 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |
| 60 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |