Example sentences of "come to the wrong " in BNC.
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1 | There are a hundred different ways of evaluating every piece of intelligence gathered so it is not hard to come to the wrong conclusions . |
2 | ‘ Aye , well , lass , if you 're after wor Robbie you 've come to the wrong shop . |
3 | Had he come to the wrong crossroads ? |
4 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
5 | ‘ I 'm afraid you really have come to the wrong man . |
6 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
7 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
8 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
9 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
10 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
11 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
12 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
13 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
14 | An official informed Joyce that he had , in any case , come to the wrong place . |
15 | He thought of Lucia 's mobile mouth , her often oblique wit , and dreaded that she might start to question , and come to the wrong person 's notice . |
16 | Erm have I come to the wrong place then ? |