Example sentences of "it wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I have had three or four cracks at it now at different times of my life and in different circumstances and every time I have got it wrong . |
| 2 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 3 | He thought it wrong to take him out of Cambridge so quickly . |
| 4 | Le shie-on-lit , non ’ ; the student said , ‘ No , you have it wrong ; Le shie-on-lit , oui . |
| 5 | In less frenetic driving , though , the 300SL-24's gearbox rarely gets it wrong . |
| 6 | Is it wrong to try to change YOUR PARTNER ? |
| 7 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 8 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 9 | ‘ The BBC received 30,000 postcards from happy holidaymakers telling them they had got it wrong . |
| 10 | The American Tour changed the qualification rule to one dictated by Ballesteros himself and then refused to change it again when Ballesteros realised he had got it wrong . |
| 11 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 12 | The fact was that the board got it wrong and we took the blame . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew Gloria got it wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ He got it wrong Wigs by Clarkson as if it mattered . |
| 15 | Many a time I have wanted to ask her about this , and thought it wrong . |
| 16 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 17 | We 've all suffered the ‘ amateur night ’ feeling that occurs when the poor speaker gets it wrong : the upside down slide , the image on the ceiling , the missing bulb and the inevitable stifled titters from the audience . |
| 18 | The Dickens Fellowship can get it wrong . |
| 19 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 20 | It would be a shame if those doctors opposed to the reforms had once again got it wrong . |
| 21 | Only Mr Hattersley could prophesy about the past and still get it wrong . |
| 22 | Election ‘ 92 : Why did they get it wrong ? |
| 23 | If so , it did not get it wrong . |
| 24 | On that occasion , too , the polls got it wrong . |
| 25 | Up until this time he had considered it wrong to administer the Lord 's Supper to those whose profession of faith was somewhat dubious . |
| 26 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |
| 27 | We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ They say a dog is man 's best friend , but they 've got it wrong . |
| 29 | Books tell you how , with diagrams and illustrations explaining wing span and feather patterns , but everybody always gets it wrong . |
| 30 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |