Example sentences of "[vb past] on the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 2 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |
| 3 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 4 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 5 | You probably guessed it already : I landed on the wrong runway . |
| 6 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 7 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 8 | A representative from the Bishop 's Castle Railway was an invited member of the party of this unique occasion , joining the electric car No I of 1893 , which ran on the wrong line just ahead of ‘ Loch ’ , which managed the gradients with ease . |
| 9 | He stayed on the wrong side of the road , followed the tracks recently made by the police cars as they drove through the snow . |