Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one thing to recognize a small dark moving spot , and quite another to recognize that one 's colleague Dr X is in a bad temper , or that there is a car approaching on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | Not bad for the son of a penniless illegal immigrant , he thought then , not bad for a boy raised on the wrong side of town . |
| 3 | A machine fitted on the wrong side will be inefficient and wear out quickly . |
| 4 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 5 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |