Example sentences of "[vb infin] wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such mimicry , of course , often extends to the use of unorthodox spelling to suggest a character 's accent , as when in Bleak House the debilitated cousin 's favourite word fellow gets reduced to the monosyllable fler : " " normously rich fler " , " Far better hang wrong fler than no fler " . |
| 2 | Baby where did our love go , what went wrong , what did I do wrong ? |
| 3 | Sometimes people have reason to undertake them , but only exceptionally does one do wrong in not undertaking them . |
| 4 | As her body began to shake with mirth , Ludovico raised himself up in dismay and cried , ‘ What do I do wrong ? |
| 5 | In De Officiis he describes two ways that men can do wrong , ‘ by force or by fraud ’ , and says that In order to guard against such destructiveness Cicero urges that ‘ pretence and concealment [ simulatio dissimulatioque ] should be done away with in all departments of our daily life ’ . |
| 6 | The men applauded ; asked her to do it again ; there was nothing she could do wrong . |