Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this does not cut cleanly , never use excessive force — you are using the wrong tool . |
| 2 | The fact that nationalized industries make losses is not sufficient to prove that they are not minimizing costs or that they are producing the wrong output from society 's view-point . |
| 3 | Perhaps you are developing the wrong muscles or refining movements which are opposed to the natural physiology of your hands . |
| 4 | Well-meaning ( as opposed to self-interested ) campaigners for wider share ownership may have the right problem , but they are advocating the wrong solution . |
| 5 | If we serve bad-for-you foods at home we affect our own hearts , certainly , but worse still , we are serving the wrong food to our families . |
| 6 | So again you might find that that you 're generating the wrong type of integer number . |
| 7 | you 're pressing the wrong button there |
| 8 | ‘ And whatever happens in the jump off , if they pick Dalton , they 're picking the wrong man . ’ |
| 9 | You 're looking the wrong way . |
| 10 | ‘ No more did I. I hope I 'm wrong but I — I think we 're going the wrong way . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're going the wrong way about it , though . |
| 12 | Henry you 're going the wrong way , as usual . |
| 13 | Let me just suggest to you that you are sending all the wrong signals on women , on Party constitution , on economic matters , on policy matters , the modernizers have lost the impetus , they 're sending the wrong signals . |
| 14 | I think it 's absolutely not the case to say that we 're sending the wrong signals , I think there 's a recognition in the country that the economy has been mismanaged , and the price that 's being exacted by people is too high , high levels of unemployment , low levels of growth , and social services undermined , and people recognize that Labour is setting out a new way forward . |
| 15 | So you 're asking the wrong person I 'm afraid for that one . |
| 16 | You 're doing that hat right , you 're doing the wrong hat are n't you ? |
| 17 | You 're doing the wrong hat to Grumpy to Anth , you 're doing the wrong hat for Grumpy |
| 18 | You 're doing the wrong hat to Grumpy to Anth , you 're doing the wrong hat for Grumpy |
| 19 | A : Yes it 's — er — it 's an enormous problem actually because as soon as you start to make a special thing about it then immediately I think you 're creating the wrong atmosphere , especially for sex . |
| 20 | Determined to be her Uncle 's guide Erika said , ‘ I think that we are going the wrong way , Uncle . |
| 21 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 22 | ‘ You are going the wrong way ! ’ |
| 23 | But having fun dressing up to ‘ show off sometimes makes her anxious that people are getting the wrong idea , misinterpreting her look . |
| 24 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 25 | I know I 'm going the wrong way , but I do n't care . |
| 26 | I know my way round here and I know I 'm going the wrong way , but I just carry on . |
| 27 | I do n't , I 'm going the wrong way , I 'm going the way when I go with Jim the quick way |
| 28 | Now very simple if I deduct forty one thousand two hundred from forty six thousand you 'll probably say I 'm doing the wrong sum . |
| 29 | Sorry , I 'm reading the wrong dates here That 's right , it ca n't be the twelfth , I must have meant the fourteenth . |
| 30 | If it is less than a hundred-per cent change , ignore it ; you are studying the wrong system or have designed the wrong experiment , he insisted . |