Example sentences of "[noun] make a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Barrantes said in Biarritz : ‘ Sarah made a mistake going to St Tropez with her children and Mr Bryan . |
| 2 | In other words , the Board made a mistake ? " |
| 3 | There was a great deal of stopping and starting when it all got underway ; the scorer made a mistake ; the score indicator broke down ; we caught Grampian out over an answer they gave as wrong , when it was right . |
| 4 | Orrell made a mistake by losing possession and giving the ball away but their hand was forced by the cherry and whites relentless drive forward . |
| 5 | If you and your committee make a mistake in college affairs the results are usually not disastrous . |
| 6 | If the judge makes a mistake by imposing too severe a sentence , then the accused can , and often does , appeal to a higher court . |
| 7 | You know , Marilla , I thought you and Matthew made a mistake when you adopted her . |
| 8 | But this lad make a mistake and he come down to the my sisters house , and my sister and her husband took him in and he 'd fallen and cut his brow , and after he was kind of sobered up he turned down and he said Not a story about this now James . |
| 9 | It is usually considered , though , that Ptolemy made a mistake with his co-ordinates , since the distance from London to his second Salinae also coincides conveniently with the distance to Droitwich , where inland salt production had been well established since prehistoric times . |
| 10 | ‘ It is said in our family that the gods made a mistake the day Fei Yen was born ; that they meant Yin Tsu to have another son . |
| 11 | Tabitha made a mistake . |
| 12 | A problem arises when a person makes a mistake about the circumstances by which he is confronted and supposes himself to be under attack when in truth he is not . |
| 13 | from five different sources and one person makes a mistake of ten pounds which is easy to do . |
| 14 | Moreover in other kinds of false belief experiment ( by Henry Wellman ) where three-year-olds watch a puppet make a mistake in searching , the children are quite capable of explaining the failure in terms of what the puppet is wrongly thinking . |
| 15 | ‘ Farmer Oak , ’ she called breathlessly , ‘ I want to say — my aunt made a mistake when she told you I had a lot of young men courting me . |
| 16 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I think God made a mistake , ’ Leo said . |
| 18 | Little bits fall off the car , some trifling part has been improperly milled , a mechanic makes a mistake . |
| 19 | And he adds : ‘ The Government made a mistake . |
| 20 | I dare say many an exquisite new dish has been created because a cook made a mistake while trying to follow a recipe . |
| 21 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 22 | If any of our players make a mistake then Wigan will make us pay for it . |
| 23 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 24 | ( c ) In Shadrokh-Cigari [ 1988 ] Crim LR 465 ( CA ) , a bank made a mistake of fact and the accused received money . |
| 25 | Vdb(CorrectNewPos) < Vs(MyNewPos) then the program made a mistake . |
| 26 | ‘ When a home country umpire makes a mistake then , unavoidably , an impression is created that he is giving an advantage to the home team . |
| 27 | In fact , it is almost about time Mr Brown made a mistake . |
| 28 | Just because the poor sod made a mistake ! |
| 29 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |
| 30 | Certainly , it is ridiculous to expect a minister to resign because a civil servant makes a mistake , even if the error be very serious . |