Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] been right " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 3 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 4 | But now they were spoken she knew she had been right . |
| 5 | He did not lift his head , but she could sense the hesitation in him and knew she had been right . |
| 6 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 7 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 8 | When the Robemaker spoke again in his soft hissing voice , he knew he had been right . |
| 9 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 10 | As soon as he saw Pickerage he knew he had been right : here was a boy who had often gone for interviews in the headmaster 's study . |
| 11 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 12 | He said he had been right to prevent the earlier attempt to censure Mr Gilbert . |
| 13 | But erm you know I 've , I 've but she said he 's been right sort of |
| 14 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |