Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A slight ‘ upstand ’ at one end of the roof ensures that the water will not fall off the wrong end . |
| 2 | Police say against the wrong victim , the stun gun could be deadly . |
| 3 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 4 | But the C P R E's evidence does n't offer you anything to go on , save that the figures have been approached in the wrong way , cos they did n't start bottom up from the environment . |
| 5 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 6 | If one player stands in the wrong place , it will change the value of the team number . |
| 7 | Oh I 've come in the wrong way |
| 8 | To them Heathcote does all the wrong things , says all the wrong things , and writes in the wrong way . |
| 9 | It was still risky , however , and anyone found in the wrong dormitory outside of hours faced expulsion . |
| 10 | At the worst the plaintiff who starts in the wrong division will be removed to another division , and may have to pay the expenses , if any , incurred by his mistake ; but he can not fail altogether for his mistake . |
| 11 | The trials of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four , provide damning evidence of the state 's corrupt disregard for the rights of innocent people unfortunate to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of Irish accent . |
| 12 | Tormented and frustrated by his yearnings to be a woman , the certain and shattering knowledge that he was caught in the wrong body , he finally decided the only answer was to have a sex change operation . |
| 13 | Of course , they 'd immediately jump to the wrong conclusion and think I was talking about a girlfriend , and I 'd get some almighty teasing , but the joke was on them ! |
| 14 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 15 | It was her folly to be attracted to the wrong kind of man , but perhaps one day she might learn her lesson . |
| 16 | In fact she was walking to the wrong bus-stop before she did recall it . |
| 17 | Lurking on the wrong side of a maul following a drop-out , Quins ' prop , Mullins , had his nose broken by an elbow in the face . |
| 18 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm afraid you really have come to the wrong man . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 22 | ‘ Aye , well , lass , if you 're after wor Robbie you 've come to the wrong shop . |
| 23 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 24 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Had he come to the wrong crossroads ? |
| 29 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 30 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |