Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] the wrong " in BNC.
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1 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
2 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
3 | Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round ! |
4 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
5 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
6 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
7 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
8 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
9 | A report from Australia on children who had swallowed dishwasher detergent revealed that nearly half had been given the wrong advice and made to vomit . |
10 | On the first day , the match score had been printed the wrong way round after he had beaten Julian Evans 7–5 , 7–5 . |
11 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
12 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
13 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
14 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
15 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |