Example sentences of "[verb] on the wrong side " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 2 | Lurking on the wrong side of a maul following a drop-out , Quins ' prop , Mullins , had his nose broken by an elbow in the face . |
| 3 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Er , this will obviously stop people driving on the wrong side of the road but it certainly wo n't or it wo n't prevent the excessive use of this service road which is very narrow indeed . |
| 6 | It is true , causeway because of the situation that exists we do have people driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 7 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 8 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |
| 9 | He was living on the wrong side of the highway . |
| 10 | Fig 94 Sailing backwards by pushing on the wrong side of the sail — a valuable skill |
| 11 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 12 | To get the power back on again you will now have to push against the sail as you sail on the wrong side . |
| 13 | I 'm Major Paul Richmann , and you seem to have got on the wrong side of General Froebe somehow . |
| 14 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 15 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 16 | One of Warner 's principal opponents was a dealer called Jay Hammond ; not least because Hammond was also happy to deal on the wrong side of the law . |
| 17 | If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | For he sometimes makes me sleep on the wrong side of my own bed . |
| 20 | Not bad for the son of a penniless illegal immigrant , he thought then , not bad for a boy raised on the wrong side of town . |
| 21 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 22 | This was more power for the cause — these people use tea bags and drive on the wrong side of the road , they hang fish on clothes lines and then eat them dry . |
| 23 | He argued , ‘ How would we like to be invaded by a foreign fascist dictator and compelled to speak Spanish and drive on the wrong side of the road ? ’ |
| 24 | They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation . |
| 25 | I like the house , the countryside , the cleanliness of England and I also like the way the cars drive on the wrong side of the road . |
| 26 | It is one thing to recognize a small dark moving spot , and quite another to recognize that one 's colleague Dr X is in a bad temper , or that there is a car approaching on the wrong side of the road . |
| 27 | Now it is time for the new generation born in the wilderness to cross the Jordan , and to begin to take possession of the Land , led not by Moses , of course , since he must die on the wrong side of the river , but by Joshua . |
| 28 | Then quickly , again reading my expression , ‘ All God 's children , of course , just the same as we all are , but travelling on the wrong side of the road — not used to the traffic . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You running on the wrong side of the road , ’ I was told by one serious 10-year-old . |
| 30 | Why , because they was dyed on the wrong side . |