Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this background , Conservatives should say : too many prison sentences are given to the wrong people ( eg alcoholics ) ; prison regimes are too often wrong , with prisoners staying inside in relatively soft conditions for relatively long sentences ; too often violent criminals do not get sent to prison as they should ; for young thugs short spells are advocated in glasshouse-type detention centres with a very tough physical regime ( but good food ) ; otherwise there should be a greater emphasis on fines , representing a more humane and economical approach . |
| 2 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 3 | But the C P R E's evidence does n't offer you anything to go on , save that the figures have been approached in the wrong way , cos they did n't start bottom up from the environment . |
| 4 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 5 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 6 | This suggests , once again , that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children 's linguistic competence . |
| 7 | All those wankers obsessed with the shape of Ms Zeta Jones ' num-nums are looking at the wrong asset . |
| 8 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 9 | We may have many hundreds of clients accessing that database all passing over large pieces of code , and obviously this Four G L code is not a message-based protocol , it is in fact a language which we 're using in the wrong manner . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're living in the wrong country , that 's the trouble , ’ he said , grinning broadly as he spoke . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 're looking for a Messiah or a missionary , you 're looking at the wrong man , ’ says one of John Major 's close friends , irked by the relentless calls for leadership and vision . |
| 12 | Well if we 're looking in the wrong Emmy , if we 're looking at at general er spread-shot advertising , i we 're in a market which is much tougher than we we sometimes appreciate . |
| 13 | If you ca n't find the right staff , perhaps you 're looking in the wrong place . |
| 14 | And then they take their jackets off and rush down the road at five thousand miles an hour and when you say to them , but you 're going in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | We 're look at the wrong music |
| 16 | It does n't seem the slightest use having leadership if you 're leading in the wrong direction . |
| 17 | You 're not doing anything with your life because as usual you 're facing in the wrong direction and going the wrong way . |
| 18 | ‘ You do know , of course , that you 're pointing in the wrong direction , ’ Gabriel stated . |
| 19 | You 're playing in the wrong league with those Taigs . ’ |
| 20 | You 're talking to the wrong man on this . |
| 21 | You , you 're talking to the wrong man on this , I 'm not in sympathy with you , you see . |
| 22 | The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating . |
| 23 | The committal warrant was signed by the judge but the contemnor complained that , contrary to Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 , no copy of the committal order had been served on him and that in any event the order had been drawn on the wrong county court form . |
| 24 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 25 | Richard is often afraid we are staying in the wrong place , have chosen the wrong country for a holiday , are , in some way , missing something . |
| 26 | Many press releases are poorly written , irrelevant to the newspaper or journal to which they have been sent , often are mailed to the wrong person on a publication , and are incredibly boring . |
| 27 | Apparently , one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction . |
| 28 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 29 | Some are based on a wrong premise : I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like : ‘ The day you forgot to vote , Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister . ’ |
| 30 | Fiona : They are facing in the wrong direction . |