Example sentences of "[verb] [art] wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some poor sap made the mistake of his career and applied the wrong brand of paint — the kind that would n't wash off . |
| 6 | A Boeing 737-400 on Sept. 22 , 1989 , plunged off the runway of the La Guardia airport in New York and crashed into the East River , killing two passengers and injuring 45 , after an inexperienced pilot reportedly applied the wrong controls . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We just made the wrong moves , and Pat Malone was injured . |
| 13 | ‘ We just made the wrong moves , and Pat Malone was injured . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | TWO of the jurors who were instrumental in jailing Mike Tyson on a charge of rape have decided they made the wrong decision . |
| 17 | I know now I made the wrong decision , I should have buried it . ’ |
| 18 | If he made the wrong decision , Anselm would leave England and resign the archbishopric into the pope 's hands . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision . |
| 22 | He said ’ I believe at the end of the day I made the wrong decision ’ . |
| 23 | I made the wrong assumption . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He knew he must pay particular attention if he was to avoid the consequences of using the wrong name , especially in public . |
| 27 | ‘ What is more embarrassing : using the wrong spoon , or saying the wrong thing in bed ? ’ |
| 28 | And that 's before the problems we inflict ourselves : frazzling our hair with heated appliances , harsh chemical processes and using the wrong products for our hair type . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |