Example sentences of "at [adv] the wrong " in BNC.

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1 Summer holidays arrive at just the wrong time for gardeners .
2 He also warned that a slowdown in money supply growth this summer could threaten the recovery at just the wrong moment .
3 The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time .
4 But the Guildford Four were released at just the wrong time , and the government quietly put the scheme on the back burner — indefinitely , it would seem .
5 He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître .
6 He changed gear at precisely the wrong moment and the car bucked and complained .
7 Together , Perry and Crilly committed endearing and devilish acts ; climbing to the ceiling of the asylum chapel to ring the chapel bell at precisely the wrong time , loitering upon the roof of the geriatric ward in pursuit of fat blue-winged pigeons , throwing craps in front of the Sinn Fein bookshop .
8 She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily .
9 You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment .
10 It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time .
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