Example sentences of "[verb] come [prep] [art] wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the drivers to avoid are the one in 100 who complete fewer than 520 miles per year — they 're the ones you meet coming up the wrong side of the motorway . |
2 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
3 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
4 | ‘ Aye , well , lass , if you 're after wor Robbie you 've come to the wrong shop . |
5 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
6 | Oh I 've come in the wrong way |
7 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
8 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
9 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
10 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
11 | ‘ I 'm afraid you really have come to the wrong man . |
12 | You have come at the wrong time . |
13 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |