Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 2 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 3 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 4 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 5 | Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week . |
| 6 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 7 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 8 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 9 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 10 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |