Example sentences of "had [verb] the right thing " in BNC.
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1 | Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
6 | After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing . |
7 | Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
10 | They went on a honeymoon to India where Gould sulked profusely and Rebuck kept wondering if she had done the right thing . |
11 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
12 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
13 | Tell me I had done the right thing . |
14 | Now she stood , quite literally , on the threshold of a new life , hesitating , wondering even now if she had done the right thing . |
15 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | However much it hurt , she had done the right thing . |
19 | She had done the right thing and Robert 's note promised friendliness . |
20 | And as Jacqui 's suffering face looked up at him , he knew he had said the right thing . |
21 | He had to do the right thing . |