Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray slip : Britain 's athletics selectors were left with red faces again today after picking world indoor champion Yvonne Murray for the wrong event at the European Cup . |
| 2 | A mistake has to be fundamental to constitute a sufficiently serious breach of contract , such as the expert making his decision about the wrong subject-matter . |
| 3 | Peter Ustinov says of us : ‘ They search for ages for the wrong word which , to give them credit , they eventually find . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It seems that Matthew was running the thing on too big a scale for the size of the town — too much stock of the wrong sort and overheads too high . ’ |
| 5 | Once I watched a whole movie with the wrong soundtrack . |
| 6 | They had sold a car with the wrong mileage recorded on the odometer . |
| 7 | One act or speech is as arbitrary as another , being in the wrong car with the wrong man is in no way stranger than being in the wrong country in the wrong job . |
| 8 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 9 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 10 | What it does not mention is that the little club from the wrong side of the Mersey crashed out 9-1 in the replay , their worst defeat . |
| 11 | In my haste , and under the influence of the contents of your letter , I evidently placed Herr Sussmeyer 's medical card in the wrong envelope and sent it to you . |
| 12 | There is no power or control over the shot because the golfer has hit flat-footed with his body weight in the wrong place . |
| 13 | Hermann clearly went about his interview in the wrong way : |
| 14 | If you do you will approach the next interview in the wrong frame of mind and it will make you less effective . |
| 15 | Also , he had learnt English from a book and sometimes put the words in the wrong order , but it did n't matter for most of the time Endill knew what he was trying to say . |
| 16 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 17 | I think Im in the wrong job … |
| 18 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 19 | Turn the facing to the wrong side and press . |
| 20 | Score card on the wrong side and then fold in half . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 23 | Although we can quickly reset our watches , our body clock takes many days to adjust , and so instructs the pineal to produce melatonin at the wrong time of day , causing jet-lag . |
| 24 | I have always felt that most of the practical differences between the handling of tailwheel aircraft and those with their third wheel at the wrong end could be covered in a single comprehensive magazine article ( like mine in March Pilot ) , but after reading The Compleat Taildragger Pilot I concede that , if you want to cover all the relevant theory too , something this size is required . |
| 25 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 26 | Reasons not attributable to readers were the querying of pressmarks which proved , on examination , to be correct ( 15% ) , and the sending of the wrong book against a correctly-completed call-slip ( 8% ) . |
| 27 | Any error and it could result in lorry loads of the wrong colour . |
| 28 | The most common reasons were : the return of the call-slip for verification ; the initial provision of the wrong book ; and the need to transfer the requested item from the reserve shelf of a previous ( undergraduate ) reader . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , Aggie , that 's a laugh for the wrong side of me face . |
| 30 | But Gould had quite possibly thanked Darwin for the wrong present . |