Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | I resist for two good reasons — a ) they do n't suit me , and b ) I 'm the wrong age for them . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , Eve , I 'm the wrong side of forty . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 'm the wrong one to ask about that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Take my kids to sea for two weeks , just two weeks , and if at the end of those two weeks you really believe that the cruise-cure wo n't work , or if you 're convinced that you 're the wrong guy for the job , then send the twins home . |
| 5 | A thoroughly toned-up body with sleek limbs , a sparkle in the eye and a lack of double chins can keep you looking mischievously young when you 're the wrong side of 40 ! |
| 6 | Her boss told Hilary : ‘ You took it like a man , although you 're the wrong shape . ’ |
| 7 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 8 | You 're the wrong side of the world , altogether . |
| 9 | Five years ago when you married Julius , you were the wrong person for him , and you 're still the wrong person . |
| 10 | And it was true , over the long term you were finished if the malais took it into their heads that you were the wrong kind of Danuese . |
| 11 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 12 | And she 's the wrong side of fifty . |
| 13 | That was the trouble with Mrs Flaherty , you could n't trust her not to say the wrong thing in company , that was one of the reasons why she was the Wrong Element . |
| 14 | But she was the wrong shape altogether . |
| 15 | She was the wrong sort of person , that was the basic trouble . |
| 16 | This may seem self-evident , but it is not unknown for people to purchase extremely attractive and reasonably priced extremely attractive and reasonably priced items only to find , when they take them home , that they are the wrong size , or that the colour and design clash with their decorative scheme . |
| 17 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 18 | They are the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 19 | ‘ If we make assumptions , and they are the wrong assumptions , we will jeopardise the mission . ’ |
| 20 | If sometimes they 're the wrong decisions … too bad . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know what it will do to her when she hears that they 're the wrong bodies . ’ |
| 22 | These other gods exist , but they 're the wrong gods . |
| 23 | Yeah we know they 're there but they 're the wrong kind for you darling . |
| 24 | Can you move those sweets cos they 're the wrong kind for her and they just |
| 25 | I quite like plain but they 're the wrong colour |
| 26 | should of been but they 're the wrong colour |
| 27 | They 're the wrong size for you |
| 28 | I think they 're the wrong size actually , I think they 're a size too big |
| 29 | The trouble was they were the wrong surroundings ! |
| 30 | Mona Washbrooke , questioned about finding the keys on the floor and confirming what Maureen had said about them , felt foolish not to have spotted immediately that they were the wrong colour . |