Example sentences of "wrong [noun] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did so many of the children put the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ i ’ the wrong way round again in ‘ their ’ ? |
| 2 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 3 | Christine Merlin also told Mr Justice Gatehouse that the fertility of her breeding geese diminished and goslings hatched with abnormalities such as ‘ heads on the wrong way round and wings in peculiar positions ’ . |
| 4 | If a boy is born ‘ breech ’ , or bottom first , for instance , he may later believe that he does things the wrong way round ; or because such births are painful for the mothers , he may decide that he hurts women . |
| 5 | Back in the present , enemies of the guerrillas ' 'new democracy' have their feet and heads hacked off and crudely sewn back on — the wrong way round . |
| 6 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 7 | Refit with new spring If this does n't cure the problem , then it may be the remote filter connected the wrong way round or too thin pipes to the remote filter Failing these it could just be a ‘ tired ’ engine |
| 8 | Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round ! |
| 9 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 10 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 11 | In contrast the new edition of R. P. Boas 's Primer of Real Functions does it all exactly the wrong way round ( Baire before Binomial ) but redeems itself with its dedication : TO MY EPSILONS . |
| 12 | It was all the wrong way round , I thought : it was more usual to know the crime and seek the criminal , than to know the criminal and seek his crime . |
| 13 | If the l.e.d. does not light , it has probably been inserted the wrong way round in the circuit — reverse its leads and try again . |
| 14 | The board he 's sitting at in your picture has the pieces the wrong way round . |
| 15 | The deputy general manager of the Cairngorm Chairlift Company , Tim Whittome , said last night : ‘ Their heads and feet are the wrong way round , but it would be impertinent to point it out to them . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds the wrong way round to choose the area because of the premises . |
| 17 | This point was proved by showing in evidence that the vehicle was the wrong way round , i.e. the offside or right of the vehicle was next to the kerb or that the nearside was not as close as may be to the kerb . |
| 18 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 19 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 20 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 21 | And brave Cheryl , 35 , who was born with major arteries the wrong way round , wept when she read her daughter 's plea . |
| 22 | On the first day , the match score had been printed the wrong way round after he had beaten Julian Evans 7–5 , 7–5 . |
| 23 | This should cause the chain to tighten and slacken in turn , but if it remains tight , clearly it is the wrong way round . |
| 24 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 25 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 26 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 27 | The strengths of the present one lie in the male singers : Markus Schäfer is a lightish Acis , who knows how to shade such a piece as ‘ Love in her eyes sits playing ’ , while Wilfried Jochens makes an exceptionally graceful and fluent Damon ( my apologies if I have these two the wrong way round ; the box and booklet are not explicit ) ; while Peter Like , with his light staccato , his controlled pianissimo and his splendidly rotund tone , makes as good a Polyphemus as any I recall . |
| 28 | On the one hand , one is inclined to say that it gets the relation of theory to reality the wrong way round . |
| 29 | This surely puts the burden of proof the wrong way round : those most actively engaged in promoting Co-operation or , more precisely , Owenism , were involved in the fight for Reform . |
| 30 | the wrong way round is n't it ? |