Example sentences of "done the right [noun] " 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 Although he lacked any deep personal convictions , Vologsky had always trod the path of least resistance , done the right things at the right times .
3 Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things .
4 Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II .
5 Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams .
6 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 .
7 No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon .
8 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 .
9 We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey .
10 After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing .
11 Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing .
12 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 .
13 He will have done the right thing .
14 ‘ 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 ?
15 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 .
16 I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’
17 ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing .
18 But the 27-year-old firmly believes he 's done the right thing .
19 Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing .
20 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 .
21 One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while .
22 They went on a honeymoon to India where Gould sulked profusely and Rebuck kept wondering if she had done the right thing .
23 William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing .
24 However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him .
25 Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing .
26 So I suppose it 's what she wanted and she 's done the right thing .
27 Tell me I had done the right thing .
28 Now she stood , quite literally , on the threshold of a new life , hesitating , wondering even now if she had done the right thing .
29 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 .
30 I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first .
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