Example sentences of "be [verb] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating . |
| 3 | The committal warrant was signed by the judge but the contemnor complained that , contrary to Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 , no copy of the committal order had been served on him and that in any event the order had been drawn on the wrong county court form . |
| 4 | With the risk of a product being used on the wrong surface or half-full containers being topped up with incompatible chemicals . |
| 5 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 6 | Skates were tied on the wrong feet ; some boys were trying to remember when they had last changed their socks ; the smell was incredible . |
| 7 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 8 | At one wedding the bridegroom and best man were standing on the wrong place , with the best man prompting a tongue-tied groom in a stage whisper . |
| 9 | The court will decide those issues on the hearing of a construction summons , and may also grant an injunction to stop a reference being conducted on the wrong basis . |
| 10 | The NI has always been sceptical about the value of government-to-government overseas aid , which too easily finds its way into the pockets of an elite or is wasted on the wrong kind of project . |
| 11 | Since they are working on the wrong side of the law anyway , they 're not too worried . |
| 12 | He was living on the wrong side of the highway . |
| 13 | Why , because they was dyed on the wrong side . |
| 14 | Victor was sitting on the wrong side of the bar with Claudette , nursing a calvados nightcap . |
| 15 | Roy Jenkins himself thought his friend Hugh Gaitskell was fighting on the wrong ground , and ought to have concentrated on amending not the party 's dogma , but its working constitution , ‘ so as , for example , to make the National Executive Committee less the creature of the trade unions and more that of the Parliamentary Labour Party ’ . |