Example sentences of "[verb] in the wrong direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | PEAT trap boy Matthew Davies was left waist-deep in a bog for three days by his chum — who then sent police searching in the WRONG direction . |
| 4 | The last Brownie to reach that place and any Brownies who run in the wrong direction are out of the game . |
| 5 | Of young women 66 per cent thought Britain was heading in the wrong direction , and that major changes were needed , and only 28 per cent felt things were all right the way they were . |
| 6 | For the first time in several years Eva found herself taking stock of her own life , realising it fell far short of the wonder and beauty of the life of Christ , and recognising she was heading in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Are n't you going in the wrong direction ? ’ |
| 10 | Whereas love is the accelerator which gets us moving , fear is the brake which prevents us going in the wrong direction . |
| 11 | It was n't long after the ball got rolling , together with the head of the Eighties opinion formers , that it got going in the wrong direction . |
| 12 | And then they take their jackets off and rush down the road at five thousand miles an hour and when you say to them , but you 're going in the wrong direction . |
| 13 | The plane was too far away and going in the wrong direction . |
| 14 | It does n't seem the slightest use having leadership if you 're leading in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | Fiona : They are facing in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | You 're not doing anything with your life because as usual you 're facing in the wrong direction and going the wrong way . |
| 17 | Apparently , one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction . |
| 18 | Apart from uncovering hundreds of signs pointing in the wrong direction , the survey of eight counties in South West England also discovered that , to bring about consistency , an average of seven changes to place names were needed on every road intersection That is roughly equivalent to two changes on every standard rural signpost , such as the one shown in the photo graph ( left ) . |
| 19 | ‘ You do know , of course , that you 're pointing in the wrong direction , ’ Gabriel stated . |
| 20 | You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment . |
| 21 | The German hotelier pointed the club-face the wrong way and swung in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 23 | Because er , everything shifts in the wrong direction . |
| 24 | The sort of man whose head has been turned by success and left him staring in the wrong direction . |
| 25 | On the way to our initial meeting I had to change trains , and soon found that I was travelling in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | Water well , then carefully remove the container and gently tease out the outer roots , so they do n't develop in the wrong direction . |
| 27 | Six armed and bombed-up B–17s took off at 1140hrs and flew southwards to seek the enemy , unfortunately they went in the wrong direction . |
| 28 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 29 | As the blood tries to flow backwards , the pockets fill up , closing the valves so that blood is prevented from flowing in the wrong direction . |
| 30 | But still Flupper continued in the wrong direction , heading for the greyish clumps of mould and fungi . |