1.   Somewhere along the line, some one had got their wires crossed, that much was clear.

2.   We got our wires crossed and I waited for an hour in the wrong place.

3.   Somewhere along the line, someone had got their wires crossed, that much was clear.

4.   He was crossing wires in.

5.   Although she has raced just five times, and has crossed the wire first in all of her races, Flanders has had a brilliant, yet star-crossed career.

6.   Deputy Commander and Corey Nakatani finished second, Wild Rush and Gary Stevens third, and Precocity and Activist were the last to cross the wire.

7.   Pincay waved his fist in triumph as he crossed the wire.

8.   Sample, whose background is in electrical engineering, got his wires crossed when his turn came to speak.

9.   Sharp Cat crossed the wire third, but the stewards disqualified her to eighth, placing her behind the fillies she had fouled.

10.   Skaggs crossed more wires when he later called both The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine.