Sentence examples for do one decent from inspiring English sources

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He explained that she was "a very nice person, a very warm person," and that she had "wanted to do one decent thing in her life, and that is to die in a decent way, because the rest of her life was such a horrible mess".

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As for David, he said, "I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently".

(Roberts is also benefiting from an unfortunate tendency on the part of liberals to be overcome by gratitude, and even deeply moved, when a conservative does one decent thing).

I couldn't find a decent interview with the man anywhere online, so I decided to do one myself.

There is an excellent card at Lingfield on Friday for All-Weather Finals day but the sand action today at a modest eight-race Wolverhampton meeting does offer one decent bet in the shape of the Rae Guest-trained Skylark Lady (5.10).

"We'll probably do... just one decent show and I think that would be really, really fine".

"Both Verstappen and and Sainz felt they could have done better, while Kvyat says he was hampered by recurring power-unit problems that meant that when he did get his one decent lap he had 'no rhythm'.

And we didn't get one decent song out of the whole thing, although everyone was flabbergasted.

That said, patrimony claims too often serve merely nationalist ends these days, no less often than they do decent ones, never mind that the archaeological and legal arguments by the Greeks, while elaborately reasoned and passionately felt, don't finally trump the British ones.

"What we have got to do is make sure that this small number of paramilitaries -- on both sides, frankly -- do not wreck what is the one decent chance for a good future for Northern Ireland that we have," Mr. Reid said.

But don't overdo it: you don't want to give them the impression that you ARE an idiot and even YOU don't like them so no one decent will EVER like them.

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