Example sentences of "be [verb] the wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 2 | If this does not cut cleanly , never use excessive force — you are using the wrong tool . |
| 3 | The fact that nationalized industries make losses is not sufficient to prove that they are not minimizing costs or that they are producing the wrong output from society 's view-point . |
| 4 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 5 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
| 6 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 7 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 8 | A report from Australia on children who had swallowed dishwasher detergent revealed that nearly half had been given the wrong advice and made to vomit . |
| 9 | Well-meaning ( as opposed to self-interested ) campaigners for wider share ownership may have the right problem , but they are advocating the wrong solution . |
| 10 | If we serve bad-for-you foods at home we affect our own hearts , certainly , but worse still , we are serving the wrong food to our families . |
| 11 | So again you might find that that you 're generating the wrong type of integer number . |
| 12 | you 're pressing the wrong button there |
| 13 | ‘ And whatever happens in the jump off , if they pick Dalton , they 're picking the wrong man . ’ |
| 14 | You 're looking the wrong way . |
| 15 | ‘ No more did I. I hope I 'm wrong but I — I think we 're going the wrong way . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're going the wrong way about it , though . |
| 17 | Henry you 're going the wrong way , as usual . |
| 18 | So you 're asking the wrong person I 'm afraid for that one . |
| 19 | You 're doing that hat right , you 're doing the wrong hat are n't you ? |
| 20 | You 're doing the wrong hat to Grumpy to Anth , you 're doing the wrong hat for Grumpy |
| 21 | You 're doing the wrong hat to Grumpy to Anth , you 're doing the wrong hat for Grumpy |
| 22 | A : Yes it 's — er — it 's an enormous problem actually because as soon as you start to make a special thing about it then immediately I think you 're creating the wrong atmosphere , especially for sex . |
| 23 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 24 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 25 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 26 | Determined to be her Uncle 's guide Erika said , ‘ I think that we are going the wrong way , Uncle . |
| 27 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 28 | ‘ You are going the wrong way ! ’ |
| 29 | But having fun dressing up to ‘ show off sometimes makes her anxious that people are getting the wrong idea , misinterpreting her look . |
| 30 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |