Example sentences of "do [vb infin] wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm it 's very difficult to spot what 's going to go wrong in advance and some of the things you suspect are dodgy nobody has any trouble with , some of the things that you just did n't occur to you that would go wrong do go wrong , it 's like , mm mm , yeah mm |
| 2 | What I do see wrong is that it 's smaller than it needs to be . ’ |
| 3 | If something did go wrong , if tempers flared and violence broke out , they could be hard put to control it . ’ |
| 4 | Dave added : ‘ Everything that could go wrong did go wrong . |
| 5 | If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked . |
| 6 | " Well , something did go wrong — the behaviour of the tide . " |
| 7 | And d had they shown you like were you sort of trained if anything did go wrong , you would have fixed it yourselves ? |
| 8 | But in nineteen seventy nine things did go wrong . |
| 9 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 10 | I know that , I mean , er , we what Paul said , is basically that , we could have problems , if it , if it did go wrong . |
| 11 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 12 | Our safety regulations er dictate that they be a certain distance from the crowd , so that if anything did go wrong , the aircraft would be able to er get out of the way , but no , there is not going to be any danger at all , they 'll make their approaches to the base as if they were attacking , and then we 'll have simulated ground bursts , a large fire as it were , on the ground , it will be going off , providing the sound effects for it , but it 's going to be just a great thing to sit and watch . |
| 13 | We do try to ensure that your holiday with us is as enjoyable as possible , but occasionally plans do go wrong . |
| 14 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 15 | If things do go wrong , Tebbit adds , Tory voters will say to themselves : |
| 16 | And they do go wrong sometimes — you switch on and nothing happens , or the picture starts breaking up , or you ca n't get any sound . |
| 17 | Either way , things do go wrong and need to be fixed . |
| 18 | Things can and do go wrong and you do n't want to pressurise yourself because you have to get the equipment back to the hire shop . |
| 19 | Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s . |
| 20 | Even if everything does go wrong the interviewer will have forgotten the disasters which seem so catastrophic to you five minutes after you have left the room . |
| 21 | — Hardware — Software — Procedures — How it all goes wrong — What to do when it does go wrong — How to prevent it going wrong — How to evaluate products |
| 22 | ‘ If anything does go wrong — ‘ |
| 23 | " Well , when it does go wrong , at least you know you can come running to me . " |
| 24 | Nobody in this business is infallible , but if something does go wrong , the customer must know that the contractor has the technical resources and financial muscle to put it right ; just as that contractor needs to have the resources and skilled manpower to tackle any infestation , and be neither too big to care nor too small to cope . |
| 25 | There is no way that any party , there is no way that the Liberal party can say to the Labour party or to anyone else , well we 'll support you , we think you 're getting in a mess but it 's your problem , you can carry it because that roughly is what they actually said and if it does go wrong , as it is sure that it will I am quite sure that it will be quite wrong to blame the Labour party entirely for that process , because it wo n't be entirely their fault . |
| 26 | But , er yeah , cos if something does go wrong , if there 's a power fail er now |
| 27 | Harriet was concerned it would mean suffering for the wretched animals and it does seem wrong that , for example , under EEC rules the poor beasts do n't even have to be fed and watered so frequently during transport as under our rules . |