Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 4 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 5 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 7 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |
| 8 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’ |
| 10 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 11 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 12 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 15 | Ziegler was now cut off on the wrong side of the Brussels road , but that predicament did not worry him . |
| 16 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 17 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 18 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 19 | In response to this BFI Wastecare has produced a leaflet , Do n't end up on the wrong side of the law , which outlines what will be required of these companies under the new regulations . |
| 20 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 21 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
| 23 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 24 | In some cases you will find that three times the drift on the outbound leg is too much , and the outbound heading comes out on the wrong side of the wind . |
| 25 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |