Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 2 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 3 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 4 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 5 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 6 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 7 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 8 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 9 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 10 | Somehow we bought her a , bought ourselves the wrong ones . |
| 11 | But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity . |
| 12 | Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week . |
| 13 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 14 | Also any that gave her the wrong kind of buzz . |
| 15 | I do n't think I ever gave him a wrong 'un , though . |
| 16 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 17 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |