Example sentences of "do the right [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way .
2 Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II .
3 Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams .
4 The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam .
5 No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon .
6 The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions .
7 We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey .
8 After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing .
9 Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing .
10 His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media .
11 He will have done the right thing .
12 ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ?
13 Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need .
14 I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’
15 ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing .
16 But the 27-year-old firmly believes he 's done the right thing .
17 Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing .
18 And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible .
19 One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while .
20 They went on a honeymoon to India where Gould sulked profusely and Rebuck kept wondering if she had done the right thing .
21 William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing .
22 However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him .
23 Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing .
24 So I suppose it 's what she wanted and she 's done the right thing .
25 Tell me I had done the right thing .
26 Now she stood , quite literally , on the threshold of a new life , hesitating , wondering even now if she had done the right thing .
27 It sticks in my throat that you know we 've had to pay it but , from the point of view of the residents , we 've done the right thing by letting it .
28 I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first .
29 The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing .
30 He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing .
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