Example sentences of "on the wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sounded almost like the gentlemen who brought their horses to be shod at Samson 's smithy , except for a slight foreign way of leaning on the wrong part of the words . |
| 2 | Why start on the wrong foot as collaborators in unpopular and spatchcock loans ? |
| 3 | Why start on the wrong foot as collaborators in unpopular and spatchcock loans ? |
| 4 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 5 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 6 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 8 | Your weight was on the wrong foot . |
| 9 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 10 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |
| 11 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 12 | One problem here is the tendency for children to get the shoe on the wrong foot , especially if they have side fastenings . |
| 13 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’ |
| 15 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 16 | The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 18 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 19 | Her inimitable use of rhythm caught many a class member on the wrong foot , but how spirits lifted when we got it right , and the ultimate but awful joy was being chosen to demonstrate . |
| 20 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 21 | The learned Lords concentrated on the wrong issue . ’ |
| 22 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 23 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 24 | With the risk of a product being used on the wrong surface or half-full containers being topped up with incompatible chemicals . |
| 25 | Christine Merlin also told Mr Justice Gatehouse that the fertility of her breeding geese diminished and goslings hatched with abnormalities such as ‘ heads on the wrong way round and wings in peculiar positions ’ . |
| 26 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 27 | on the wrong way between the H Q . |
| 28 | ‘ So we 've got au identification on the wrong man but it 's the only path through the mire . |
| 29 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 30 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |