Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 2 | Former champion and born-again Christian George Foreman — who has seen the sleazy side of life at first hand — warned after Lewis 's brilliant two-round knockout of Razor Ruddock at Earls Court : ‘ Lennox Lewis will win the world title — as long as he does n't get in with the wrong crowd . ’ |
| 3 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 4 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 5 | Do n't want you falling in with the wrong types , do we ? |
| 6 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 7 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 8 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 9 | Turn the buckram down to the wrong side on the marked top edge of the curtain and tack it in place . |
| 10 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 11 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 12 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 13 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 15 | I called in at the wrong time . |
| 16 | A spokeswoman said police had no idea why the car which was heading into Middlesbrough crossed over into the wrong lane . |
| 17 | A WOMAN died when her car crossed over onto the wrong side of the road , hit a Transit van and overturned yesterday . |
| 18 | They do n't mind helping you out getting the diverts in the right position , because the last thing they want is to put the calls through to the wrong person . |
| 19 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 20 | ‘ Encountering an incompetent telephonist , who puts you through to the wrong extension and/or cuts you off , and/or is n't sufficiently clued-up about who 's who and where to reach them ’ . |
| 21 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 22 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |
| 23 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |
| 24 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 25 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 26 | He also sped off across Dartmoor in search of Tamara but , totally confused , after running wildly around , set off in the wrong direction , heading north between gently wooded hills to reach the Atlantic . |
| 27 | Suddenly , one of the rockets shot off in the wrong direction , dived on the crowd and exploded among them . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 29 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 30 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |