Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 2 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 3 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 4 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 5 | Which is why it 's a very good idea when you next go into your offices this afternoon , to rock the receiver , like this , because any camp ons put on the wrong extension on the ‘ ring no reply ’ camp on will be matured , on a first come first served basis , so that 's how people get to talk to you . |
| 6 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 7 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 8 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 9 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 10 | He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away . |
| 11 | But farmers operating under a quota regime question the economic sense of introducing BST and are concerned that its use would send out the wrong signals to consumers . |
| 12 | But farmers operating under a quota regime question the economic sense of introducing BST and are concerned that its use would send out the wrong signals to consumers . |
| 13 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 14 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 16 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
| 17 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 18 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 19 | Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person |
| 20 | Richard Dunn , chairman of the ITV Association and managing director of Thames Television , said : ‘ It is sending out the wrong signals . |
| 21 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 22 | Mr was completely wrong about the Labour amendment erm in fact he read out the wrong amendment altogether . |
| 23 | Cleaning lady move the bed and you got out the wrong side or what ? ’ |
| 24 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 25 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 26 | Raymond Aron , for example , argued that the General 's policy " accustomed the French to taking on the wrong enemy " . |
| 27 | I went down the wrong route with the referrals and |
| 28 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 29 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 30 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |