Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn the buckram down to the wrong side on the marked top edge of the curtain and tack it in place . |
| 2 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |
| 8 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 9 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |
| 10 | The argument is put forward that if a badger associates humans with food it may one day wander up to the wrong person , with fatal results . |
| 11 | Lay the blind out flat with wrong side uppermost and form the lath channel by turning 1cm ( ⅜in ) up to the wrong side along the bottom edge , then turn up a further 4cm ( 1 ½in ) . |
| 12 | I kept throwing the ball back to the wrong player . |
| 13 | I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos . |
| 14 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 15 | His family is suing the Kenyan government over his death from a fractured skull after the vehicle veered on to the wrong side of the road on 3 August , hitting the couple from behind . |
| 16 | Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard . |
| 17 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 18 | Kirov was always a master at inveigling innocents on to the wrong side of the system . |
| 19 | a car behind me , the car behind that just pulled out on to the wrong side of the road , sat there looking and decided not to and pulled back |