Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the game has gone down the wrong road and we are not sitting back and just letting it happen . ’ |
| 2 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 3 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 4 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 5 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 6 | This was important to the early Christians because they faced the charges that Jesus was not really dead when he was taken down from the cross and that , even if he was , the women could have gone to the wrong tomb on the Sunday morning . |
| 7 | On almost any basis of cost allocation , this would have resulted in the wrong product costs and a wrong emphasis on product mix ( long-term , not just short-term ) . |
| 8 | She felt utterly trapped in her small , cramped frog 's body , her knees felt bent in the wrong place and her arms were too short , and it was quite terrifying trying to speak and only being capable of a hoarse croaking sound . |
| 9 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 10 | And with all those people stacked up in X-ray , cheek by jowl , rubbing their short , white dressing gowns together , the plates were bound to have got into the wrong envelopes . |
| 11 | I 'm Major Paul Richmann , and you seem to have got on the wrong side of General Froebe somehow . |
| 12 | I think there must be another box of these and they 've sort of got in and that seems to have got in the wrong box . |
| 13 | ‘ It makes me sound like a parcel that got sent to the wrong address . ’ |
| 14 | Luke had jumped to the wrong conclusion about Richard , and she did n't intend to enlighten him — yet . |
| 15 | Well , you 've jumped to the wrong conclusion . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , well , lass , if you 're after wor Robbie you 've come to the wrong shop . |
| 17 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Oh I 've come in the wrong way |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 24 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 25 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 26 | She had got into the wrong train . |
| 27 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 28 | Oh we will unless we 've gone down the wrong hill We 'll have to practice the window cleaner one if you 're going to read it to the rest of the class , have to practice the face and read it with expression so they do n't all fall asleep oh hello , hi . |
| 29 | James you 've you 've gone on the wrong side . |
| 30 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |