Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] wrong " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe I 'd been wrong about Bonanza after all . |
| 2 | So much so that for months afterwards I kept asking myself whether I 'd been wrong . |
| 3 | The exercise of skills in the workforce as a mature returner has been a rewarding experience in so many ways but I never expected it to test my personal standards or challenge my courage to stand up against what I believe is wrong . |
| 4 | There were a lot of little things that I felt were wrong . |
| 5 | I know that all I saw was wrong . |
| 6 | Now if the intelligence community is that good , let's be very clear about it , it would be easy , and to sa suggest that internment might make it easier , I think is wrong . |
| 7 | I was afraid of them and everything I did was wrong . ’ |
| 8 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 9 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 10 | I had been wrong . |
| 11 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 14 | But perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ Necromancy , ’ he said , lowering his voice , ‘ Do you know , I never believed in that hoary old tale about necromancy sucking all the goodness and all the warmth from everything , but perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been wrong … accusing you over my mother 's lifestyle . |
| 17 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him , after all ! |
| 18 | If I 've been wrong about you I 'm sorry . |
| 19 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him . ’ |
| 20 | Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ? |
| 22 | Things such as ‘ If I have been wrong , please forgive me ’ or attempts to share the blame with others are ineffective in restoring trust . |
| 23 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 24 | What do you think is wrong with what the assistant is saying ? |
| 25 | She 'd been wrong , she realized . |
| 26 | But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come . |
| 27 | But now she wondered if she 'd been wrong — or , at least , only partly right . |
| 28 | She had spent those long sleepless hours going back and forth over everything that had happened , every word they 'd spoken , everything she 'd seen , and at some point had come to realise that she 'd been wrong . |
| 29 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 30 | mental institution and having to give up his job because once they get that position if they speak out , in any way , for instance the Civil Service you ca n't speak out at all even if you can see something that you know is wrong |