Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] wrong place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 2 | He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , like I am now , so just piss off out of it , will you ? |
| 3 | Poor unlucky soul ; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , and something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to . |
| 4 | But some of them were just in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 5 | He says he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 6 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 7 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 8 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |
| 9 | He was also in the wrong place again . |
| 10 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
| 11 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 12 | The troops , lacking adequate maps and orders , wandered about the shore in disarray ; many had been landed indiscriminately ( often in the wrong place ) and stores and ammunition had been stockpiled without regard to their future use . |
| 13 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 14 | but I 've only , in fact , used ten because someone took the microphone in and put it back in the wrong place . |
| 15 | grandma 's back in the wrong place ! |
| 16 | But Jean , say detectives , was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 17 | To make it easy I like the Jones + Brother punch , as unless it is positioned correctly it wo n't work , so you avoid punching a hole accidentally in the wrong place . |