Example sentences of "[adv] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to use two sets of terms is to court confusion : unless the two categories of business are wholly separate , the likelihood is that eventually the wrong set will be used . |
| 2 | Which is why it 's a very good idea when you next go into your offices this afternoon , to rock the receiver , like this , because any camp ons put on the wrong extension on the ‘ ring no reply ’ camp on will be matured , on a first come first served basis , so that 's how people get to talk to you . |
| 3 | Raymond Aron , for example , argued that the General 's policy " accustomed the French to taking on the wrong enemy " . |
| 4 | In the dark , panic-stricken by what she 'd done , she ran down the wrong passage , towards the sea instead of towards the land , slipped and fell to her death on the rocks below . ’ |
| 5 | Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man . |
| 6 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 7 | Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person |
| 8 | I went down the wrong route with the referrals and |
| 9 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 10 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 11 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |
| 12 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 13 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 14 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 15 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 16 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |
| 17 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 18 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 19 | Several times he apologised for using what was perhaps the wrong word . |
| 20 | well business that would n't , my Lord , that 's perhaps the wrong description , business that would not of been written had the restrictions not been in place |
| 21 | To them Heathcote does all the wrong things , says all the wrong things , and writes in the wrong way . |
| 22 | When it comes to going to bed at night I do all the wrong things — and I 'll bet you do , too . |
| 23 | While unlikely , this is not in principle altogether implausible , and so the wrong answer would be reached . |
| 24 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 25 | Only the wrong kind of boy comes forward to be his friend ; the right kind are just the ones who hang back . ’ |
| 26 | This was entirely the wrong way to make policy and a cavalier way of dealing with a popular and effective service . |
| 27 | Doreen realised she was going about matters in entirely the wrong way . |
| 28 | ‘ For entirely the wrong reasons , of course . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Blake , somehow you seem to have entirely the wrong idea about me . ’ |
| 30 | Again , she had plenty of opportunity to turn tail and run , to prove to him somehow , somewhere , some way , that he had got entirely the wrong idea about her . |