Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 2 | For example , when Dostoevsky abandons the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter but retains the brief exchange in which Shatov urges Stavrogin to go to Bishop Tikhon , and Stavrogin replies ‘ Thank you , I will ’ , let nobody persuade us the novelist has made a mistake . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it . |
| 4 | ‘ You must tell your friend , ’ continued the lady , ‘ that she has made a mistake . |
| 5 | I asked Ulu Grosbard , who knew Nichols , to ask him what he felt about me : ‘ I think he feels he has made a mistake . |
| 6 | Nichols does feel he has made a mistake . ’ |
| 7 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 8 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Your detective has made a mistake . ’ |
| 10 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
| 11 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 12 | Even if he has made a mistake they are still bound by it . |
| 13 | One party or the other will almost always be in a position to complain that the judge has made a mistake , that the " right " was his , not his opponent 's . |
| 14 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
| 15 | I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck . |
| 16 | ‘ All through The Graduate Nichols thought he 'd made a mistake in casting me . |
| 17 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 18 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 19 | The climb was quickly repeated and downgraded , and Tribout ruefully admitted he 'd made a mistake . |
| 20 | For the first time , he 'd made a mistake . |
| 21 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 22 | ‘ I began to wonder whether I 'd made a mistake over the arrangement . |
| 23 | I knew we 'd made a mistake as soon as we 'd … we 'd … ’ |
| 24 | And even if I 'd made a mistake I 'd be honest enough to admit it . |
| 25 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 26 | They 'd made a mistake . |
| 27 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 28 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 29 | I do n't like being proved wrong , and there was no way I was ever going to admit I 'd made a mistake . |
| 30 | I assumed he 'd made a mistake , but suppose he had n't ? |