Sentence examples for it took a wrong turn from inspiring English sources

THE shingled cottage that opens today across the street from Pastis, on Gansevoort Plaza, looks as if it took a wrong turn on East Hampton's Newtown Lane and ended up in the meatpacking district of Manhattan.

But somewhere along the way, it took a wrong turn or two.

The crews also kept an eye on non-human activity with Flint and Rhyl lifeboats helping a young dolphin to deeper water after it took a wrong turn and got stranded on the banks of the River Dee.

But when I tried to find it I took a wrong turn and it was just someone's house at the end of a really long road that turned into a cul-de-sac.

I suppose it's both: "Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going".

Maybe I took a wrong turn.

Perhaps I took a wrong turn somewhere.

Eventually I took a wrong turn and ended up at the headwaters of the creek.

I was in this mess because I took a wrong turn.

Yesterday I took a wrong turn and ended up in the most derelict part of town.

It will raise doubts about the system's ability to capitalise on its successes when it wants to innovate rather than just catch up, and to correct itself if it takes a wrong turn.