Example sentences of "gone wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had one hoped for too much or has something gone wrong ? he wrote . |
| 2 | I went down to find out what had gone wrong . |
| 3 | The latter examines the complaint and , if it is justified , calls the refereeing panel together to make them aware of what has gone wrong . |
| 4 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 5 | Something had certainly gone wrong — gone soft and mawkish — with the English tradition of the amateur , when we find Hewlett on facing pages of Binyon 's volume of Letters , writing in 1916 to E.V . |
| 6 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher yesterday had the honesty to admit that inflation is ‘ far too high ’ , but she no more deigned to explain what has gone wrong than the Chancellor had the day before . |
| 8 | Yet because God is love and creation is a manifestation of His love , He continues to love the world and wills to ‘ put right ’ whatever has gone wrong . |
| 9 | Now at last Maggie had realised that something had gone wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
| 11 | I learned a lot from him and his ability to see what had gone wrong from a sales point of view . |
| 12 | What has gone wrong ? |
| 13 | It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years . |
| 14 | Such effusive collusion from any company employee would suggest that something , somewhere , had gone wrong . |
| 15 | Although risotto rice always cooks up wet , your guests might think that something has gone wrong . |
| 16 | Over the past five months , despite everything that has gone wrong with his adventure in Kuwait , he has calmly refused to bow to pressure , whether political , economic or military . |
| 17 | Something had gone wrong and the House wanted blood . |
| 18 | What had gone wrong , and when ? |
| 19 | She could n't understand what had gone wrong : she thought , at first , of joining that little knot of onlookers to see if she could find out more . |
| 20 | A forest of hands clutching a variety of tickets waved about his head like the tentacles of a sea anemone and he began patiently to explain where they had gone wrong . |
| 21 | The television had not defeated her because nothing had ever gone wrong with it , and it had only to be switched on and off or , scarcely more complicated , over . |
| 22 | Several titles had already occurred to him : ‘ American Hero Gone Wrong ’ , ‘ The Flawed Hero ’ , perhaps ‘ Carrying Patriotism Too Far ’ . |
| 23 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 24 | What had Labour done — or where had the Conservatives gone wrong — to create such a gap ? |
| 25 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 26 | So what had gone wrong ? |
| 27 | There needs to be personal contact when things have gone wrong , the head and staff need to be generous in their apologies when they make mistakes . |
| 28 | ‘ Something could have gone wrong , Perhaps the gang overestimated the prosperity of the family , and demanded more than they could afford to pay . ’ |
| 29 | It was the wildest party Britain had seen , and the media had a field day with a revelling of nude and painted bodies , cavorting to fine music under a dense cloud of cannabis smoke and punctuated by the occasional screams of an acid drop gone wrong . |
| 30 | Now he 's gone wrong , somehow . |