Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the wrong side " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it does not mention is that the little club from the wrong side of the Mersey crashed out 9-1 in the replay , their worst defeat . |
| 2 | Turn the facing to the wrong side and press . |
| 3 | Score card on the wrong side and then fold in half . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Aggie , that 's a laugh for the wrong side of me face . |
| 5 | In fact , he has continually made a point of recording that he was not a boy from the wrong side of the tracks , as some tried to indicate , but that his mother/grandmother made sure they were well provided for . |
| 6 | Wayans is Johnny Stewart , a Chicago wide boy from the wrong side of the tracks who ekes a living by executing scams on unsuspecting white folks with his hyper-active bro Seymour , one Marlon Wayans . |
| 7 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 8 | It is plain that someone , sometime , bore an infant on the wrong side of the blanket ! |
| 9 | I thought wryly of the days , not many years before , when I was holed up in one dark room on the wrong side of town . |
| 10 | Insert pulling cord through the cord holder and screw it to the centre of the lath on the wrong side . |
| 11 | McKitten , 26 , overtook Mr Beard , forcing him to brake sharply , then drove for a mile on the wrong side of the road , the court at Chester-le-Street , Co Durham , heard . |
| 12 | The woman driver of the hired van who 's British but has ben living in france for eleven years had apparently driven a mile on the wrong side of the road . |
| 13 | When practice first begins on the patterns , a beginner often loses direction instantly and executes a block or a kick to the wrong side . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it seems that there the external power is abetted by some inner weakness , some potentially wicked impulse towards the wrong side . |
| 15 | Lay out the outer fabric flat with the wrong side up and lay buckram on top with the bump sandwiched in between . |
| 16 | Some of these cloths will be interlines and it might be a good notion to try adding some of the iron-on lining to the wrong side while you are pressing . |
| 17 | Pin the lining to the wrong side of the band and slipstitch in place . |
| 18 | Pin a length of curtain buckram or strips of softer stiffening to the wrong side across the whole width of the valance between the creasemark of the sides , and positioned 1.5cm ( ½in ) down from the cut top edge . |
| 19 | This was a dame who bled to death in a dirty room in a flophouse on the wrong side of town . |
| 20 | Somebody said this morning On the wrong side of the carriageway , which you probably |
| 21 | Sometimes clothes would arrive with the sleeves backwards or the pocket on the wrong side ; someone with formal training would never have allowed garments with such a poor finish , ’ Liza maintains . |
| 22 | At the crime prevention panel , I watched a video of a police chase through the centre of Middlesbrough , in which a 14-year-old drove a Vauxhall Astra at 90 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road , weaving in and out of oncoming traffic . |
| 23 | Iron the interfacing to the wrong side of the heading allowance , with its lower edge level with the marked top of the curtain and its ends touching the creaseline of the sides . |
| 24 | What on earth did a man on the wrong side of forty have to say to an eighteen year old ? |
| 25 | Apply double-sided tape to the sides and do the lower edge on the wrong side . |
| 26 | Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning ? |
| 27 | To form the channels above bottom pelmet , bring the pairs of stitching lines together and pin with the wrong sides facing ; this will form the channels on the right side of the lining ( fig. 52 ) . |
| 28 | Machine the seam from the wrong side over the tacking . |
| 29 | Colleagues stopped talking to me , afraid no doubt that being on the wrong side of the new Director might prove contagious . |
| 30 | Join the short ends together t make a circle and with the right side of the lace to the wrong side of the neck edge , sew in place then turn the lace band over to the right side of the garment . |