Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the wrong direction " in BNC.

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1 If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it !
2 Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them .
3 I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely .
4 Suddenly , one of the rockets shot off in the wrong direction , dived on the crowd and exploded among them .
5 He also sped off across Dartmoor in search of Tamara but , totally confused , after running wildly around , set off in the wrong direction , heading north between gently wooded hills to reach the Atlantic .
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