Example sentences of "get it wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
| 2 | His first thought , as he shook the hand of the distinctive dark man almost as tall as himself , was that Francesca must have got it wrong this time . |
| 3 | If we seem to have got it wrong , we sort it out when we divvy up the profit . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd got it wrong , and he did n't know what she was on about . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 've got it wrong , darling , ’ said Everthorpe , struggling to retain his poise . |
| 6 | ‘ No , you 've got it wrong , darling , ’ she said — talking to me , but every so often glancing across at Dad . |
| 7 | He said judicially , ‘ I expect that 's what you heard ; but no , you 've got it wrong , Patriarch . |
| 8 | I must have got it wrong , for ‘ one ’ was older than the two brothers , Guy and Noël . |
| 9 | Mr Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , admitted the Government had ‘ got it wrong ’ , but said he would not be resigning . |
| 10 | The shadow secretary of state for trade and industry , Robin Cook , said : ‘ This report shows that Michael Heseltine has got it wrong again . ’ |
| 11 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've got it wrong , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ’ You 've got it wrong , Fuzzy , ’ he finally said , when he could get a defensive word in . |
| 14 | ‘ You must have got it wrong , ’ Caterina was saying . |
| 15 | If we 've got it wrong … … help us put it right ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got it wrong , then ? ’ he cut in . |
| 17 | Is not it beyond the realms of possibility that the Secretary of State and railway management have got it wrong on this occasion ? |
| 18 | Apparently he 'd got it wrong yet again . |
| 19 | Three o'clock in the afternoon and the weathermen had got it wrong , the sun still shone and the sky was blue . |
| 20 | ( She sometimes gets it wrong , as she did when awarding Cesar Milstein a Nobel prize for ‘ cloning ’ something . ) |
| 21 | The radio sketches that Galton and Simpson created for Tony Hancock in the mid-1950s are a back-street version of the same rueful joke : the hero , discomforted by every encounter , gets it wrong when he is trying hardest to get it right . |
| 22 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 23 | If as Secretary of State you get it wrong , then you — and crucially the people you are serving — live with the consequences for the next twelve months and beyond . |
| 24 | If I get it wrong , I feel it with my whole body . |
| 25 | If you get it right the Beaver stops on a sixpence ( but if you get it wrong , normally yielding water can be awfully hard ! ) |
| 26 | Get it wrong again , and it becomes a trifle tiresome ! |
| 27 | ‘ But you still get it wrong , sometimes . |
| 28 | Even when parents get it wrong , Paul 's point is that if you are Christian , your obedience is in the Lord . |
| 29 | ‘ I know I get it wrong sometimes . ’ |
| 30 | So many companies still get it wrong It brings into question the fundamental and obvious belief that one should always put the customer first . |