Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
| 2 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 3 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 6 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | The joker , however , gives the present knowing that in the confusion as it goes off , it may be thrown the wrong way — into the face of the recipient 's partner . |
| 11 | Do not tack too much in the early stages of the beat and do not let yourself be forced the wrong way . |
| 12 | He sat in silence , afraid whatever he said would be taken the wrong way , and wished they would leave him in peace . |
| 13 | There 's almost nothing either of us can say that ca n't be taken the wrong way , with a bit of imagination . |
| 14 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
| 15 | She broke off , suddenly realising that her words might be taken the wrong way . |
| 16 | Though I 'm cautions by nature and habit , I have a temper that can flare up if I 'm rubbed the wrong way . |
| 17 | On the first day , the match score had been printed the wrong way round after he had beaten Julian Evans 7–5 , 7–5 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | If the l.e.d. does not light , it has probably been inserted the wrong way round in the circuit — reverse its leads and try again . |
| 20 | They had made enquiries of someone in the village , Melchbourne , but were given the wrong directions , through ignorance or malice . |
| 21 | A hospital has began an inquiry into how the parents of a cot death baby who were encouraged to cuddle their dead child were given the wrong body to hold . |
| 22 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 23 | But they were given the wrong tape machine . |
| 24 | Half the faces in the stalls were turned the wrong way , trying to see what the fuss was about in the back row . |
| 25 | After other passengers had been dropped off , she had realised she was being driven the wrong way for her home . |
| 26 | When a national minority is caught the wrong side of a new frontier , is it better to move the people , the frontier , or neither , giving expression to the minority some other way ? |
| 27 | ‘ But if he is he 's picked the wrong girl in Suzie . |
| 28 | An accidental death verdict has been recorded on a woman who died after she was given the wrong blood during an operation . |
| 29 | I was offered the wrong medicine twice . |