Example sentences of "he make a mistake " in BNC.

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1 He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them .
2 After three years of wrangling , the matter was dropped , though Miller does in the eighth edition of the Dictionary admit that he made a mistake in former publications .
3 He made a mistake of two percentage points in a price for steering-boxes for British Leyland before his head cleared .
4 It looks as if there was an opinion on high to leave Galileo alone , but then he made a mistake .
5 Barrett , who has recently scored two impressive first round stoppage victories in Italy , decided he needs more experience in the welterweight division and feels he made a mistake in challenging Manning Galloway too soon for the WBO welterweight crown last July .
6 ‘ He 's probably realised now he made a mistake , ’ said Rush .
7 He knows he made a mistake at Ibrox but he will have wiped it from his mind .
8 The teacher , with a white-coated scientist standing by him , was then instructed to teach the learner a series of linked words , and to punish him by delivering a shock every time he made a mistake .
9 If he made a mistake , repeat stages 2–4 .
10 ‘ Well , ’ Francis said , ‘ he made a mistake .
11 For my part I prefer to imagine that he made a mistake .
12 He made a mistake at the top of the hill in the Gold Cup , ’ Gaselee said , ‘ but you can take it from me , he did n't have a hard race .
13 Gloucester City Football Club have done an about turn too … they 've got Brian Godfrey the man they sacked as manager three months ago back in charge … the chairman says he made a mistake … three cheers for him …
14 He made a mistake .
15 Dom Grossard further informs us that ‘ He could tell at once which grapes were from which vineyards and would say , ‘ The wine of that vineyard must be married with the wine of that one ’ , and never once did he make a mistake . ’
16 I may say that we both agreed that our relations will be governed by his decision , that I would have gone along with it had he made a mistake which harmed me .
17 He tried to make a connection between this and something he had heard , or read , about the illusion of the face in a looking-glass in that famous picture — by Goya was it , or Velasquez — some Spaniard , no — was Velasquez Spanish , was n't he making a mistake there , was n't he Italian ?
18 If he makes a mistake , he has to rectify it .
19 To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) .
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