Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You probably guessed it already : I landed on the wrong runway . |
| 2 | A representative from the Bishop 's Castle Railway was an invited member of the party of this unique occasion , joining the electric car No I of 1893 , which ran on the wrong line just ahead of ‘ Loch ’ , which managed the gradients with ease . |
| 3 | To get the power back on again you will now have to push against the sail as you sail on the wrong side . |
| 4 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 5 | If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender . |
| 6 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 7 | ‘ You running on the wrong side of the road , ’ I was told by one serious 10-year-old . |
| 8 | We ca n't really recommend such desperate measures , since we do n't want you to get on the wrong side of that civil action . |
| 9 | For he sometimes makes me sleep on the wrong side of my own bed . |
| 10 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 11 | They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation . |
| 12 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 13 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 14 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
| 15 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |
| 16 | He stayed on the wrong side of the road , followed the tracks recently made by the police cars as they drove through the snow . |