Example sentences of "[art] wrong time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 2 | Summer holidays arrive at just the wrong time for gardeners . |
| 3 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 4 | Clocks adjusted to the wrong time — ‘ Monday morning blues ’ and some forms of insomnia |
| 5 | There is general dissatisfaction with direct debits being charged at the wrong time or from the wrong account and so-called ‘ phantom withdrawals ’ from ATMs . |
| 6 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 7 | Of course she sold her house at the wrong time . |
| 8 | Poor seed-beds , dry conditions and spraying at the wrong time or the wrong rate could all explain the appearance of the yield-sapping weed . |
| 9 | Perhaps , Isabel decided , it is the wrong time of the year and I must wait until July or August , when they arrive as tourists . |
| 10 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 11 | But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time . |
| 12 | The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time . |
| 13 | However diligently the football authorities in Scotland have tried to manage the psychologies and sensibilities of the national team , they have inevitably put the wrong people , in the wrong room at the wrong time . |
| 14 | The trials of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four , provide damning evidence of the state 's corrupt disregard for the rights of innocent people unfortunate to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of Irish accent . |
| 15 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 16 | Being the wrong class , in the wrong place , at the wrong time — in a foreshadowing of later night-beat practices — meant trouble : ‘ not any suspectid personne nor persons after nyne of the clocke shall not walke , but rest an kepe they theyr hoostes houssies , uppon payne of imprisonment ’ . |
| 17 | Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process . |
| 18 | ‘ I get stationery at the wrong time ’ |
| 19 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 20 | ‘ They have picked the wrong time to ask , ’ one member says . |
| 21 | But I chose the wrong time when prices were depressed and there was n't a great deal to come after all the expenses were paid . |
| 22 | ‘ The main problem of the external course is that it can be an ad hoc activity bearing little relation to a current problem or systematic training scheme , and thus the wrong people can be trained at the wrong time by the wrong methods . |
| 23 | There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him . |
| 24 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 25 | There was an awkward pause and then he added , ‘ He was in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |
| 26 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 27 | But the Guildford Four were released at just the wrong time , and the government quietly put the scheme on the back burner — indefinitely , it would seem . |
| 28 | This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've said it 's the wrong time of the year for that . |
| 30 | We have also suffered from rain in the wrong place and at the wrong time . |