Example sentences of "go [prep] the wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines . |
| 2 | I 'm going round the wrong way . |
| 3 | It 's going round the wrong way . |
| 4 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Are n't you going in the wrong direction ? ’ |
| 7 | Whereas love is the accelerator which gets us moving , fear is the brake which prevents us going in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | It was n't long after the ball got rolling , together with the head of the Eighties opinion formers , that it got going in the wrong direction . |
| 9 | And then they take their jackets off and rush down the road at five thousand miles an hour and when you say to them , but you 're going in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | The plane was too far away and going in the wrong direction . |
| 11 | These include the best man losing the ring , or going to the wrong church , and the groom finding the wrong woman when he lifts the veil . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the Blackpool unit which processes applications nationally , blamed a clerical error for material going to the wrong addresses . |
| 13 | Apart from this , children are out by going to the wrong side when a number is called out , if they unfreeze without being told or if they are the last one to do one of the organizer 's commands . |
| 14 | Going to the wrong places . |
| 15 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |
| 16 | For either student , going at the wrong pace can well mean not learning as much as the average , or not learning at all , and this is true for the highly intelligent student as well as the one with learning difficulties . |
| 17 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 18 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 19 | I used to spend all my time in these shops watching the cup speeding along the rail but never seeming to go to the wrong station . |
| 20 | If someone is unlucky and goes to the wrong festival , the lesson will not open with the words that I have quoted . |
| 21 | Unfortunately for Dundee it went past the wrong side of the post . |
| 22 | Why would you go into the wrong lane to a roundabout ? |
| 23 | He did so quickly , but went into the wrong room which was full of ‘ weird things ’ . |
| 24 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 25 | Six armed and bombed-up B–17s took off at 1140hrs and flew southwards to seek the enemy , unfortunately they went in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | What matters is the ultimate profit , and if it can be increased by employing some more salesmen so be it , even if the numbers go in the wrong way . |
| 27 | and they , if they go round the wrong way , oh all right you 're out , now we try again , and |
| 28 | and they went to the wrong door and said is this car anything |
| 29 | They went to the wrong place . |
| 30 | You may tell me that I went to the wrong place to begin with — and I can now agree . |