Example sentences of "get [pers pn] wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 2 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 3 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 4 | I obviously got you wrong . ’ |
| 5 | I clearly got you wrong . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've got me wrong . |
| 7 | I get another star , thing is he does n't actually , I can remember them cos he can read them , I do n't know whether she 's got them wrong for the test it 's a bit of a really is n't it eh ? come on |
| 8 | Have I got them wrong ? |
| 9 | Despite these occasional reservations , Norris writes as a disciple , who believes that other disciples , as well as Derrida 's enemies , have got him wrong . |
| 10 | I suppose I have had three or four cracks at it now at different times of my life and in different circumstances and every time I have got it wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ The BBC received 30,000 postcards from happy holidaymakers telling them they had got it wrong . |
| 12 | The American Tour changed the qualification rule to one dictated by Ballesteros himself and then refused to change it again when Ballesteros realised he had got it wrong . |
| 13 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 14 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 15 | It would be a shame if those doctors opposed to the reforms had once again got it wrong . |
| 16 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |
| 17 | We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong . |
| 18 | ‘ They say a dog is man 's best friend , but they 've got it wrong . |
| 19 | You 've got it wrong ! ’ ) |
| 20 | I told him he 'd got it wrong . |
| 21 | Kinsey and almost everyone else had got it wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ Bina , you 've got it wrong . |
| 23 | Only unlike nature they 'd got it wrong . |
| 24 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 25 | They have not got it wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ Is there any possibility , ’ Secretary of State Donaldson asked , ‘ that the British scientists could have got it wrong ? |
| 27 | People who say Roth just does aggressive yobs have got it wrong . |
| 28 | I 'll do my best … but tomorrow half of England will think I have got it wrong . |
| 29 | As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done |
| 30 | If your knuckles are white on the wheel you 've got it wrong . |