Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |
| 2 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Suddenly , one of the rockets shot off in the wrong direction , dived on the crowd and exploded among them . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 8 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 9 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 10 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 11 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 13 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |
| 14 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 17 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 18 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 19 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 20 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 21 | Ziegler was now cut off on the wrong side of the Brussels road , but that predicament did not worry him . |
| 22 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 23 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 24 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |
| 25 | Better , then , to start off down the wrong valley and take the road along the Gave d'Aspe as far as Escot ; you can do this avoiding the main road , because there is a minor road out of Oloron going all the way along the eastern side of the valley as far as Escot . |
| 26 | That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before |
| 27 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 28 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |