Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 2 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 3 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 4 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 5 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 6 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 7 | ‘ Umpires found nothing wrong ’ |
| 8 | They found nothing wrong . |
| 9 | She paced me and paced me wrong . ’ |
| 10 | Your veterinary surgeon will put your mind at rest if you ware worried , but invariably a spooky horse has nothing wrong with him at all ! |
| 11 | Such a Government has something wrong about it . |
| 12 | A fish in distress swims erratically near the surface and readily suggests that it has something wrong with it . |
| 13 | But the Song of Roland has it wrong ; all that is epic licence . |
| 14 | Up until this time he had considered it wrong to administer the Lord 's Supper to those whose profession of faith was somewhat dubious . |
| 15 | They would have been hard pushed to find anything wrong with good old mild-mannered George . |
| 16 | But the plan is for me to get a look in that van without , for the moment , the driver noticing anything wrong . ’ |
| 17 | ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature . |
| 18 | He must have heard her wrong . |
| 19 | But meeting Romano de Sciorto in the flesh seemed to be proving her wrong … |
| 20 | When I was a little lad I had this mongrel puppy ; he got summat wrong wi ’ him , and the vet wanted to put him down . |
| 21 | Pretending for a moment that she had noticed nothing wrong , Julia poured herself a glass of vermouth and then turned to face David . |
| 22 | ‘ All right , ’ said Gabriel blithely , as if he had noticed nothing wrong . |
| 23 | Jane had played her cards , and played them wrong . |
| 24 | But there seemed nothing wrong with the head of government appearing to be the challenger on the hustings . |
| 25 | He could do nothing wrong ! |
| 26 | Do you know what I mean it is erm it 's his car and I ca n't do nothing wrong with it . |
| 27 | I 'd done nothing wrong . |
| 28 | Martin Shaw , the Derby director who represents his club on the League management board , said : ‘ The existing rules allow for flexibility in dealing with a case where the player clearly has done nothing wrong himself . ’ |
| 29 | He 's done nothing wrong and you 're lucky to have such a conscientious officer . |
| 30 | Dorothea has done nothing wrong . ’ |