Example sentences of "had gone wrong " in BNC.

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1 I went down to find out what had gone wrong .
2 Now at last Maggie had realised that something had gone wrong .
3 ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't .
4 I learned a lot from him and his ability to see what had gone wrong from a sales point of view .
5 It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years .
6 Such effusive collusion from any company employee would suggest that something , somewhere , had gone wrong .
7 Something had gone wrong and the House wanted blood .
8 What had gone wrong , and when ?
9 She could n't understand what had gone wrong : she thought , at first , of joining that little knot of onlookers to see if she could find out more .
10 A forest of hands clutching a variety of tickets waved about his head like the tentacles of a sea anemone and he began patiently to explain where they had gone wrong .
11 Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about .
12 So what had gone wrong ?
13 When I caught up with Pottz later that evening , I asked him what had gone wrong .
14 But something had gone wrong with Clinker 's fusing .
15 What , then , had gone wrong ?
16 McCullough ‘ Then at noon on the 10th , they found some activity on the roof of the meteorological station ; this was unusual , and they knew that something had gone wrong
17 Realising that something had gone wrong , the alarmed miner was making his way out of the pit .
18 That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again .
19 What had gone wrong ?
20 He had n't held out much hope , although he had agreed that the letter seemed to disprove the theory about a break-in that had gone wrong .
21 It was reassuring to hear of another life that had gone wrong , to be reminded that , however successful a person might seem , things were n't always easy .
22 Some of us were airlifted — that is , sent — to see what had gone wrong .
23 Crazy idea — unless something had gone wrong between them . ’
24 Something had gone wrong .
25 Something had gone wrong .
26 Even Wordsworth 's friends and admirers sensed that something had gone wrong .
27 ‘ I knew they had gone wrong and shouted at them to stop , ’ said Nicholson on welcoming back his winner .
28 What had gone wrong ?
29 Somewhere along the line , Harriet felt , she had gone wrong with her daughter 's upbringing .
30 None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together .
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