Example sentences of "[verb] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 6 | Er , this will obviously stop people driving on the wrong side of the road but it certainly wo n't or it wo n't prevent the excessive use of this service road which is very narrow indeed . |
| 7 | It is true , causeway because of the situation that exists we do have people driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 8 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 9 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |
| 10 | He was living on the wrong side of the highway . |
| 11 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
| 12 | Fig 94 Sailing backwards by pushing on the wrong side of the sail — a valuable skill |
| 13 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 14 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 15 | To get the power back on again you will now have to push against the sail as you sail on the wrong side . |
| 16 | The committal warrant was signed by the judge but the contemnor complained that , contrary to Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 , no copy of the committal order had been served on him and that in any event the order had been drawn on the wrong county court form . |
| 17 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |
| 18 | I 'm Major Paul Richmann , and you seem to have got on the wrong side of General Froebe somehow . |
| 19 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 20 | With the risk of a product being used on the wrong surface or half-full containers being topped up with incompatible chemicals . |
| 21 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 22 | One of Warner 's principal opponents was a dealer called Jay Hammond ; not least because Hammond was also happy to deal on the wrong side of the law . |
| 23 | This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami . |
| 24 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 25 | Get on the wrong wavelength with one across , and everything fits except one single interlocking letter . |
| 26 | If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender . |
| 27 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 28 | For he sometimes makes me sleep on the wrong side of my own bed . |
| 29 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 30 | Skates were tied on the wrong feet ; some boys were trying to remember when they had last changed their socks ; the smell was incredible . |