Example sentences of "[v-ing] the wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew he must pay particular attention if he was to avoid the consequences of using the wrong name , especially in public . |
| 2 | ‘ What is more embarrassing : using the wrong spoon , or saying the wrong thing in bed ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 5 | Similarly , using the wrong rhythm while speaking a second language immediately singles you out as a foreigner . |
| 6 | 56 An advertisement from The Sound Waves — demonstrating the dangers of distortion from using the wrong needle , or the benefits of being ‘ blown away ’ by use of the right needle ! |
| 7 | I have witnessed many occasions when foreigners have unintentionally caused misunderstanding or even offence in speaking to an English person , but can remember very few occasions when this could be attributed to ‘ using the wrong intonation ’ except when a mistake caused a difference in apparent grammatical meaning ( something that is dealt with in the next chapter ) . |
| 8 | If every type of glider required a different recovery there would be the risk of a pilot using the wrong method for the type of aircraft . |
| 9 | Using the wrong face can destroy the effect that a document was trying to create just as the wrong colour can ruin a decoration scheme |
| 10 | If this does not cut cleanly , never use excessive force — you are using the wrong tool . |
| 11 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 12 | In dosing as a prophylactic measure , the pondkeeper runs the risk of using the wrong remedy , at the wrong dosage , and interfering with the filter bacteria ( which , in spring at least , require a boost , not a setback ) . |
| 13 | So again you might find that that you 're generating the wrong type of integer number . |
| 14 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 15 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 16 | Society will be wasting resources by producing the wrong output levels of different goods . |
| 17 | The fact that nationalized industries make losses is not sufficient to prove that they are not minimizing costs or that they are producing the wrong output from society 's view-point . |
| 18 | But at the same time many , like Cobbett in Rural Rides , believed they were tackling the wrong problem in the wrong way . |
| 19 | This is an interesting example of the patient learning what is expected ( no glycosuria ) but adopting the wrong solution . |
| 20 | Pike 's legs went up and down like someone walking the wrong way along a travelator . |
| 21 | Cracking the wrong nut |
| 22 | A SOLDIER was critically injured yesterday after driving the wrong way down a fogbound motorway . |
| 23 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 24 | FRUSTRATED motorists tried to escape three-mile tailbacks by driving the wrong way along one of Suffolk 's busiest roads yesterday after it was blocked by grain . |
| 25 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 26 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 27 | However , the defendant was found to have been contributorily negligent in pressing the wrong signal and his damages were reduced by 20% . |
| 28 | you 're pressing the wrong button there |
| 29 | Instructing the wrong engineer can be a horribly expensive mistake . |
| 30 | I suffered anguish of loving the wrong baby |