Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 2 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 3 | Perhaps she 'd made the wrong choice , after all , she was thinking . |
| 4 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 5 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 6 | Margaret panicked , she 'd got the wrong number , the wrong place , the wrong advertisement , why did n't they get off the line , why did n't they leave her — |
| 7 | ‘ At first I was prepared to think you 'd made a genuine mistake — that you 'd got the wrong boat . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps when she made it clear he 'd got the wrong woman he 'd be sorry … |
| 9 | Why should she take it out on him that he 'd got the wrong voice ? |
| 10 | But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger . |
| 11 | Either she was losing her mind , or she 'd followed the wrong man . |
| 12 | So naturally the police thought I 'd identified the wrong body as Uncle . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd killed the wrong man ! |
| 14 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 15 | When I learnt biology , I was taught that Weismann , although he was right about the independence of germ line and soma , had given the wrong answer to this question . |
| 16 | She was on the verge of ignoring the summons , on the reasonable assumption that the visitor had pressed the wrong buzzer , when it sounded several more times . |
| 17 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 18 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 19 | Ronan had picked the wrong day for this story . |
| 20 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 21 | There are instances in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the courts have , despite such subjective wording , overturned decisions by finding that the power was being used for an improper purpose , or that the public body had applied the wrong test when construing legislative criteria . |
| 22 | If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman . |
| 23 | In the garden in her white dress , she knew she had done the wrong thing . |
| 24 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 25 | He knew at once that he had said the wrong thing . |
| 26 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 27 | Again she knew at once that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 28 | There was a doom-laden pause , and Desmond became conscious he had said the wrong thing again . |
| 29 | She knew she had said the wrong thing the minute the words had left her mouth . |
| 30 | I 'm pretty sure , in the way these things work , that Alfred felt he had made the wrong choice and , illogically , held it against Matthew . |