Example sentences of "it the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Another strategy is to jam the re-uptake system open , so that dopamine flows through it the wrong way all the time , keeping the gap suffused with the neurotransmitter . |
6 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
7 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
8 | 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 |
9 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
10 | Seems he 's gone out of it the wrong way . |
11 | ‘ No , Ace , you 've got it the wrong way round . |
12 | A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws . |
13 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
14 | 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 , |
15 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
16 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
17 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
18 | It the wrong way . |
19 | It the wrong way . |
20 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
21 | Five , no I do it the wrong way |
22 | Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round . |
23 | got it the wrong way round . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
26 | In the evening of Valentine 's Day , do take two white oak leaves , and lay them across your pillow , when you go to bed , putting on a clean shift or shirt , and turning it the wrong side outwards , lay down and say these words aloud , ‘ Good Valentine be kind to me , in dreams let me my true love see . ’ |
27 | ‘ Was it the wrong impression ? ’ |
28 | Was it the wrong moment ? ’ |