Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 2 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 3 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 4 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 5 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 6 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 7 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 8 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 9 | If mirth it was : she heard these sad wails and thought , I 'm laughing out of the wrong side of my mouth … |
| 10 | Carried out in the wrong weather conditions it can produce the opposite to the desired effect . |
| 11 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 12 | His family is suing the Kenyan government over his death from a fractured skull after the vehicle veered on to the wrong side of the road on 3 August , hitting the couple from behind . |
| 13 | Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard . |
| 14 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 15 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 16 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 17 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 18 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 19 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 20 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 21 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 22 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 23 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |
| 24 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 25 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 26 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 27 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 28 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 29 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 30 | 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 . |