Sentence examples for it served him right from inspiring English sources
"And when I heard it was defeated overwhelmingly, I thought it served him right".
David Mellor was a cad who deserved what was coming to him after preaching family values and having an affair with Antonia de Sancha, so Clifford simply made up the bit about him having sex in his Chelsea top because it served him right.
I say it served him right, but now I'm a little curious: anyone here have their iPod unlawfully taken from them?
The conservative justice is saying, with irony in the fire, that it serves him right for straying from strict construction.
"Wouldn't it serve him right?" And then: "I became aware of myself from the young man's perspective my shabby sealskin boots, the cerise snowflake pattern around the top of my thick Norwegian socks, the thin lace trim along the hem of my nightdress.
George Will says that Obama is "being unfairly blamed" for the BP crisis and it "serves him right," because Obama's been a big fan of central government and competence and now, guess what, concentrating experts in the government hasn't solved this problem.
Yet the tale's teller, Dioneo, finishes by saying of Gualtieri that perhaps "it would have served him right if, instead, he had run into the kind of woman who, upon being thrown out of the house in her shift, would have found some guy to give her fur a good shaking and got a nice new dress in the bargain".
Others might have felt this served him right.
Like most people, I thought it served him absolutely right to be disgraced, stripped of his medals and banned from professional cycling competition for the rest of his life.
