Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 2 | And having my kind of build , being quite big and wearing miniskirts , I know that sometimes it gets me the wrong kind of attention from boys only interested in physical relationships . |
| 3 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 4 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 5 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 6 | Right , and then this ship , S , radios the helicopter and says , this ship J is on a bearing of , and let's say , let's say , he does it the wrong way round , is on a bearing of forty five degrees , |