Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 2 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 4 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 6 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 7 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 8 | might tempt her to the wrong thoughts . |
| 9 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 10 | The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . ) |
| 11 | Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 13 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 15 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 16 | Sometimes the they make a fuss if you put them in the wrong place . |
| 17 | Put them in the wrong places ai n't he ? |
| 18 | It is very unlikely that a solar panel would chop your hand off if you accidentally put it in the wrong place , but the 36 in ( 91cm ) span of the larger wind generators can be deadly . |
| 19 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 20 | How would the bank staff know if hed put it in the wrong way round … it just does nt ‘ suck ’ it in. unless he forces it in . |
| 21 | Secondly , it is only right that your doctor should know , because if there is a significant change in your condition with homoeopathy , he will ascribe it to the wrong treatment if he does not know that other therapies have also been given . |
| 22 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 23 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 24 | If they do not ( and the track record is not good ) , they will be responsible for leading us up the wrong path ( again ) and they will create yet greater levels of exhaustion and disaffection . |
| 25 | Get them round the wrong way , of course , and you spend ten thousand pounds worth of preparation on a ten p problem . |
| 26 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 27 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 28 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 29 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 30 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |