Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 2 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
| 3 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 4 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 5 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 6 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |
| 7 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 8 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 9 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 10 | Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round ! |