Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 2 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 3 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 4 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |
| 5 | As she is only three you will need a lot of patience and persistence to get the message across , but do keep trying , otherwise her bossiness could leave her on the wrong side of the fence from her friends . |
| 6 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 7 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |