Example sentences of "[verb] the wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 2 | Erm I tend to share Patrick Earle 's reservations about this particular policy , I think that it would convey the wrong message erm to the development industry . |
| 3 | Haylock latched on to a glorious through-ball from Peebles and finished the move with a fierce 20 yard drive — but the ball passed the wrong side of the post . |
| 4 | Some poor sap made the mistake of his career and applied the wrong brand of paint — the kind that would n't wash off . |
| 5 | Thus in my judgment the judge applied the wrong test in approaching the exercise of his discretion , and on that ground alone we are entitled to interfere with his decision . |
| 6 | In the circumstances it is not strictly necessary for me to express an opinion on the other submission made by Mr. Levy , for the local authority , as to why the judge applied the wrong test in exercising his discretion . |
| 7 | The appellant appealed pursuant to section 19A(2) of the Act on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge failed to consider a wide range of relevant factors in deciding whether to make the order ; ( 2 ) the judge applied the wrong test as to whether the appellant had acted unreasonably ; ( 3 ) the judge failed to give reasons for the making of the order and neither ascertained the amount of wasted costs incurred , nor what party had incurred the wasted costs ; and ( 4 ) had wrongly used the section 19A procedure to punish the appellant . |
| 8 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 9 | the clue , I I 'm sure if I made a mistakes like that , it 's because it 's , you know , maybe angry and I made the wrong approach . |
| 10 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 11 | In this case , the speaker made the wrong choice and produced a form which is neither LE nor JC , though the target was certainly JC . |
| 12 | TWO of the jurors who were instrumental in jailing Mike Tyson on a charge of rape have decided they made the wrong decision . |
| 13 | I know now I made the wrong decision , I should have buried it . ’ |
| 14 | If he made the wrong decision , Anselm would leave England and resign the archbishopric into the pope 's hands . |
| 15 | Of course if he made the wrong decision he could pay for it by loss of his command , as we have seen , or even with his life , as happened to Timagoras , the ambassador who accepted humiliating terms at a peace conference in 367 ( Xen . |
| 16 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 17 | With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision . |
| 18 | He said ’ I believe at the end of the day I made the wrong decision ’ . |
| 19 | I made the wrong assumption . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 21 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 22 | He knew he must pay particular attention if he was to avoid the consequences of using the wrong name , especially in public . |
| 23 | ‘ What is more embarrassing : using the wrong spoon , or saying the wrong thing in bed ? ’ |
| 24 | Fire extinguishers may seem a good idea , but there are so many types to be used for so many different sorts of fires that I would be nervous of escalating a fire , rather than killing it , by using the wrong type of extinguisher . |
| 25 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 26 | Similarly , using the wrong rhythm while speaking a second language immediately singles you out as a foreigner . |
| 27 | 56 An advertisement from The Sound Waves — demonstrating the dangers of distortion from using the wrong needle , or the benefits of being ‘ blown away ’ by use of the right needle ! |
| 28 | I have witnessed many occasions when foreigners have unintentionally caused misunderstanding or even offence in speaking to an English person , but can remember very few occasions when this could be attributed to ‘ using the wrong intonation ’ except when a mistake caused a difference in apparent grammatical meaning ( something that is dealt with in the next chapter ) . |
| 29 | If every type of glider required a different recovery there would be the risk of a pilot using the wrong method for the type of aircraft . |
| 30 | Using the wrong face can destroy the effect that a document was trying to create just as the wrong colour can ruin a decoration scheme |