Sentence examples for only went wrong from inspiring English sources

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Back when we worked on the old home computers and had very similar restrictions, most games played well - things only went wrong when people started to introduce fancy techniques to a system that couldn't cope.

A lawful headlock was used on him; it only went wrong because Garner kept flailing around.

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"You can only go wrong granting it".

"Things only go wrong," Wessely wrote in 1995, "when the nature of an outbreak is not recognized, and a fruitless and expensive search for toxins, fumes and gases begins.

We only go wrong when we don't ask questions.

It only goes wrong in our intimate relationships because the stakes for getting it wrong are so much higher.

But by describing their daydreams, she said, children are "able to figure out not only what went wrong, but what kinds of thoughts and tricks could help them concentrate".

Only something went wrong in the factory, because midway through this sexy R&B funk number is a spoken-word interlude from one of Pharrell's female coterie.

This contrast leaves us with the "macropuzzles": we have much work left to do to piece together a plausible story not only of what went wrong, but why it went wrong.

"We can only guess what went wrong, but I don't think we'll ever know for sure," said Los Angeles Police Det.

The Brazilian hit the post with his effort, just about the only thing that went wrong for Barcelona all day.

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