Sentence examples for on the wrong person from inspiring English sources
"You guys took on the wrong person.
They picked on the wrong person.
They have been focusing on the wrong person".
"Anna is going to moderate," he said of the no-nonsense editor, "to make sure I don't call on the wrong person".
"The government thought it could scare Gillian Triggs out of her job, but it turns out they picked on the wrong person.
I'm still undecided about children, but the reality of the biological clock means that I feel I have less time to waste on the wrong person, just in case I do decide to have kids.
Whether or not a work is attributed to the wrong person depends on, according to Clark v Associated Newspapers, "the single meaning which ... the work conveys to the notional reasonable reader".
A sneer can mean you have a fight on the hands if you do it to the wrong person.
We excluded these samples on the grounds that they had been mistakenly attributed to the wrong person.
They live with the unease for years on end, going to the wrong job, living in the wrong city, married to the wrong person.
Married to the wrong person?
