Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 5 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 6 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 7 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 8 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 9 | I called in at the wrong time . |
| 10 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 12 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |