Example sentences of "[vb infin] wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | they do n't know wrong from right |
| 2 | They had not consciously memorised the names or done anything which an honest man would consider wrong . |
| 3 | Above all , this fear arises in work where the police encounter outsiders whose job it is to make them appear wrong or incompetent — mostly court duty . |
| 4 | But be aware of the likely course of events if trouble does occur — this can prevent wrong diagnosis . |
| 5 | He was such a two-faced little man that finding these hysterically funny did n't feel wrong . |
| 6 | It did n't feel wrong . |
| 7 | I remember a wee boy in the class I was in in the primary school and he got a row he I remember him getting a row from the teacher and he s the teacher said what did you do wrong and he said oh I 've gone and putten putten where I should 've putten put |
| 8 | What did you do wrong there ? |
| 9 | What did you do wrong ? |
| 10 | yeah what did she do wrong that girl ? |
| 11 | What did you do wrong ? |
| 12 | 3 Do n't repeat wrong sounds and forms when correcting them . |
| 13 | It did n't take her long to decide she had precisely two choices — well , one , really , because even though it was n't cold it would look wrong to go out in thin cotton to the sort of party he was talking about . |
| 14 | I think , yeah I think it might look wrong if you turned it up actually . |
| 15 | What I do see wrong is that it 's smaller than it needs to be . ’ |
| 16 | But erm , Sigmund Freud as you rightly say , a moment there 's anything you can see wrong if , certainly happens to Darwin . |
| 17 | That there are Parliamentarians who actually ca n't see wrong in this sadistic illness makes one realise that these , along with bloodsport participants , need psychiatric treatment more than our votes . |
| 18 | Now , Colonel Bumford is very typical of the type of regular officer , who is so orthodox and cautious , he finds it safer to put off making decisions rather than risk wrong ones . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps no one acted in a way we can judge wrong by personal standards of conduct . |
| 20 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 21 | In a series of examples , Lieberson goes on to demonstrate that under a variety of conditions , unmeasured selectivity can produce wrong answers and identify wrong patterns . |
| 22 | Parents should not have wrong expectations of their children . |
| 23 | But why does it always go wrong ? |
| 24 | ‘ There must be inevitable mistakes made in any such journalism and a lacunae will appear in regard to evidence , and indeed trials will go wrong . |
| 25 | If something did go wrong , if tempers flared and violence broke out , they could be hard put to control it . ’ |
| 26 | The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision . |
| 27 | But even if , for sound economic reasons , bargaining about a new , looser Yugoslavia starts in earnest , much could go wrong . |
| 28 | Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s . |
| 29 | Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s . |
| 30 | The Hanson style can , of course , go wrong if headquarters misjudges a business and pushes its bosses to pursue targets that are too demanding . |