Example sentences of "[pron] [be] wrong but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Correct me if I am wrong but Sir Thomas Springall was an alderman and a goldsmith . |
| 2 | Erm I I I I will apologize if I am wrong but my interpretation of the table is that erm could you say chairman wh which of three rows of We 're dealing with the the top part of the table all vehicle travellers , |
| 3 | ‘ No more did I. I hope I 'm wrong but I — I think we 're going the wrong way . ’ |
| 4 | On the whole Leeds have a lot of positive points at the moment but the deficiences of the squad I think will not see us challenge the top two places this year — I hope I 'm wrong but unless serious money is spent strengthening the side the likes of Man Utd and Liverpool will defeat us . |
| 5 | May be I 'm wrong but I think it 's in a block . |
| 6 | Professor Lock will no doubt correct me if I 'm wrong but from memory in neither of those cases was there the sort of provision in the development plan which you 're now seeking . |
| 7 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 8 | Dobry 's view that ‘ it is not so much the system which is wrong but the way in which it is used ’ was endorsed , and his Final Report was commended to students of our planning system as an invaluable compendium of information about the working of the existing development control process , and to local authorities and developers as a source of advice on the best way to operate within it . |
| 9 | She was wrong but it 's easy when it 's everywhere like it is there . |
| 10 | Counsel said she repeated the caller 's number incorrectly to try and alert him something was wrong but this did not appear to work . |
| 11 | ‘ I will not say that they are wrong but I will say that I think they are definitely unwise in the present climate of opinion … . |
| 12 | The lack of good results is here explained by faulty equipment ( an explanation also offered to me by other students ) ; however , students gain higher marks for lab work if the results are ‘ correct ’ than if they are wrong but adequately accounted for : |
| 13 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 14 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 15 | It is wrong but it 's close . |
| 16 | I knew it was wrong but I could n't stop doing it . |
| 17 | I knew it was wrong but as time went on I found that despite myself I was hoping that Iraq would win . |
| 18 | I try to explain to the two silver boots [ now accompanied by the projectionist , drinking tea ] what is wrong but I can not make myself heard even out here . |
| 19 | I do not know what is wrong but I do n't feel right ’ , he said . |
| 20 | It took me time to find out what was wrong but eventually I sorted it out . |