Example sentences of "wrong and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone else is wrong and they 're right . ’ |
| 2 | According to Golitsin everything the West believed about Russia was wrong and they needed to start all over again with his help and interpretation of the truth . |
| 3 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |
| 4 | On the one hand , educationalists have argued that segregation of handicapped pupils is wrong and they ought to be taught in ordinary schools , albeit with special lessons and equipment provided , in order that they do not lose touch with ordinary children . |
| 5 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 6 | I mean I l the , the pundit system in this country is absolutely delightful , I mean you do n't need do you , when I mean the economy 's in , in , in reverse and things are going horribly wrong and they wheel on Mr Lawson to explain what he would have done , |
| 7 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 8 | There was a library but Rain and Patrick did not meet there because her recollection was wrong and they blundered into each other in a passage . |
| 9 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 10 | I said , but other people let it go wrong and they got away with it . |
| 11 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 12 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 13 | Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form . |
| 14 | The fact was that the board got it wrong and we took the blame . |
| 15 | At first it all seemed dreadfully wrong and we did what our family always do in such situations ; we were facetious . |
| 16 | ‘ He proved us wrong and we 've apologised , but I think most parents would have reacted exactly the same way . ’ |
| 17 | which one identifies , there 's a kind of feeling erm you know , we 're , we 're the members and there 's something special about us and er at the best we 're sorry for the non-members , we 'd like to have more of them and so we might proselytize and preach the gospel , you know you know throw away your idioms , become or in the worst possible way we might be an exclusive group and say we are , we are erm special , we are we , we know the truth and everybody else is infidels and you know they should be killed or driven out or or in some ways discriminated against because they 're wrong and we 're right . |
| 18 | They saw that , you know the , this wa wash your face campaign and all of a sudden their cadres were pretty unpopular and they thought goodness me , we 're really doing something , we 're just doing something wrong and we 've got to try and mobilize support , we need a radical policy . |
| 19 | We need the information the last Labour government er when they were banking er banking crisis in the early er in the early seventies , instituted a series of inquiries , there was an inquiry into London and counties , there was one into London and capital , a series of inquiries which were published , the information was there , we knew what had gone wrong and we knew therefore how to deal with it . |
| 20 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 21 | They added : ‘ We consider the grounds on which the Press Council make their decisions are wrong and their press releases even contain a number of inaccuracies which they are unwilling to correct . ’ |
| 22 | For newcomers to Koi-keeping , the thrill of a first pond can very soon be tarnished if things go wrong and their Koi start to die . |
| 23 | conjures up images and I just object to the fact that people impose on us , degrenality , I mean I , I think lesbian 's and gay men have got a right to their life style as we have and I do n't think we should be actually imposing and I think that 's what a lot of society and what people come out with does er more or less we do n't agree with that and its wrong and its objectional |
| 24 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 25 | ‘ The party needs a period of serious reflection about what went wrong and what needs to be done . |
| 26 | Another of the experiments demonstrated how important it is , if punishment is to work , for children to understand clearly what they are doing wrong and what alternative actions they can choose . |
| 27 | Okay , so when you come to look at these videos , okay , slightly exaggerated but if you go down to court , and you might like to go down to the hall or somewhere locally , you 'll actually find that there are advocates who do what did deliberately wrong and what did deliberately wrong . |
| 28 | Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm . |
| 29 | The shoes were wrong and her glasses were wrong . |
| 30 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |