Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reasons not attributable to readers were the querying of pressmarks which proved , on examination , to be correct ( 15% ) , and the sending of the wrong book against a correctly-completed call-slip ( 8% ) . |
| 2 | Iron the interfacing to the wrong side of the heading allowance , with its lower edge level with the marked top of the curtain and its ends touching the creaseline of the sides . |
| 3 | they spend the money in the wrong direction ! |
| 4 | If you listen to a text enough times you will come to a point where you more or less know it by heart , and the correct tunes will be sort of " ingrained " in your ind to such an extent that you will yourself react if you would say the text with the wrong intonation . |
| 5 | ‘ As always you grasp the stick by the wrong end . |
| 6 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 7 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 8 | Turn the facing to the wrong side and press . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr. Howell 's argument , which found favour with Simon Brown J. , seems to me to approach the question from the wrong end . |
| 10 | By the third week , if a pupil from one school felt that a pupil from the other school was taking up too much space , or holding the microphone at the wrong angle , or not performing a task quickly enough , they would be told . |
| 11 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 12 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 13 | This is linked to long and short-sightedness , in that it 's the result of a malformation of the eye — in this case , an uneven curving of the cornea ( the covering over the front of the eye ) which means light enters the eye at the wrong angle . |
| 14 | It is no use just heating things up ; that would again only speed up the reaction in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | Before examining these propositions I must make good the comment that the concentration on the moment of charging has tended to lead the inquiry in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | Insert pulling cord through the cord holder and screw it to the centre of the lath on the wrong side . |
| 17 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 18 | The criticism in question being that he tends to carry the ball under the wrong arm … |
| 19 | But a member of the Richmond Small Bore Rifle and Pistol Club said : ‘ These politicians are placing the emphasis on the wrong people . |
| 20 | Still twitching and shuddering , as if to the beat of the wrong pulse , the dhāmi looks at the child , willing his eyes to focus , be still . |
| 21 | In the 7 years up to 1977 , 7389 families were established as opposed to the goal of 100 000 by 1974 , largely because of poor agricultural yields , in part due to the use of the wrong rice cultivar for Amazonia , problems of storage of produce and of predators and pests , in an imported technology that was too temperate-oriented . |
| 22 | Pin the lining to the wrong side of the band and slipstitch in place . |
| 23 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
| 24 | Sometimes clothes would arrive with the sleeves backwards or the pocket on the wrong side ; someone with formal training would never have allowed garments with such a poor finish , ’ Liza maintains . |
| 25 | ‘ Either someone moved it or I must have got out of the lift on the wrong floor . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The doctrine preached by Weismann was that to start with a body and enquire how its characters got into the germ was to view the sequence from the wrong end : the proper starting point is the germ . |
| 27 | Join the short ends together t make a circle and with the right side of the lace to the wrong side of the neck edge , sew in place then turn the lace band over to the right side of the garment . |
| 28 | Machine the seam from the wrong side over the tacking . |
| 29 | Perhaps the messenger had delivered the information to the wrong person . |
| 30 | I 've got the shade round the wrong way . |