Example sentences of "[adv prt] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raymond Aron , for example , argued that the General 's policy " accustomed the French to taking on the wrong enemy " . |
| 2 | Which is why it 's a very good idea when you next go into your offices this afternoon , to rock the receiver , like this , because any camp ons put on the wrong extension on the ‘ ring no reply ’ camp on will be matured , on a first come first served basis , so that 's how people get to talk to you . |
| 3 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 4 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 5 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 6 | Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man . |
| 7 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 8 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |
| 9 | In the dark , panic-stricken by what she 'd done , she ran down the wrong passage , towards the sea instead of towards the land , slipped and fell to her death on the rocks below . ’ |
| 10 | Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person |
| 11 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 12 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 13 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |
| 14 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 15 | I went down the wrong route with the referrals and |
| 16 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 17 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 19 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 20 | People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 21 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 22 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 23 | In view of that stated aim , I was surprised to find no mention of Sherwood Idso 's claims that all of the fuss is a result of climatologists barking up the wrong tree , misled by computer models which are all making the same mistake . |
| 24 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 26 | THOSE who insisted that the Queen pay income tax were barking up the wrong tree . |
| 27 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 28 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 29 | It 's obviously never occurred to her she could be barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 30 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |