Example sentences of "wrong [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 2 | And if you , you go and see a G P at the end of the financial year or at the wrong part of the financial year , then you may be referred to somewhere strictly because that 's all the G P can , can afford to send you . |
| 3 | One act or speech is as arbitrary as another , being in the wrong car with the wrong man is in no way stranger than being in the wrong country in the wrong job . |
| 4 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 5 | Turn the buckram down to the wrong side on the marked top edge of the curtain and tack it in place . |
| 6 | Mark the letters in reverse on the wrong side of the sticky orange paper , cut them out ready to stick across the front of the mug . |
| 7 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 8 | Colleagues stopped talking to me , afraid no doubt that being on the wrong side of the new Director might prove contagious . |
| 9 | Strictly speaking , the caves of Isturits arc in Basse-Navarre , a mile or two on the wrong side of the invisible boundary of Labourd , and so belong in my next section . |
| 10 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 11 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 12 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |
| 13 | The vehicle was parked on a yellow line and so close to the Market Street junction that vehicles emerging from that road had to swing out onto the wrong side of the High Street . |
| 14 | Lay the blind out flat with wrong side uppermost and form the lath channel by turning 1cm ( ⅜in ) up to the wrong side along the bottom edge , then turn up a further 4cm ( 1 ½in ) . |
| 15 | Turn 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) of blind fabric and lining to the wrong side along the top edge . |
| 16 | Turn the 4cm ( 1 ½in ) heading allowance to the wrong side along the tacked line indicating the top edge of the curtains . |
| 17 | Pin a length of curtain buckram or strips of softer stiffening to the wrong side across the whole width of the valance between the creasemark of the sides , and positioned 1.5cm ( ½in ) down from the cut top edge . |
| 18 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 19 | On the wrong side in the Civil War , profiteering from the Napoleonic Wars , dutifully sending two sons to get butchered in Flanders . |
| 20 | The choice of Aquitaine is then linked variously to the ability of the people of that part of Gaul to pay , the possibility that they may have backed the wrong side in the recent usurpations against the emperor Honorius , and the threat from separatist groups north of the Loire , who were known as Bacaudae . |
| 21 | However diligently the football authorities in Scotland have tried to manage the psychologies and sensibilities of the national team , they have inevitably put the wrong people , in the wrong room at the wrong time . |
| 22 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 23 | Having said that , does n't every club turn up for the wrong match on the right day at least once or twice a season ? |
| 24 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |
| 25 | The trials of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four , provide damning evidence of the state 's corrupt disregard for the rights of innocent people unfortunate to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of Irish accent . |
| 26 | Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process . |
| 27 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 28 | There was an awkward pause and then he added , ‘ He was in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |
| 29 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 30 | Or they may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time . |