Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 2 | He also said Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , had made a mistake when he pumped too much money into the economy after the 1987 stock market crash . |
| 3 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 4 | Ernie never would admit he had made a mistake with the horse . |
| 5 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 6 | Because she was physically worse after the operation than before it , Rose was convinced that the doctors had made a mistake , and for a long time she wanted to sue them . |
| 7 | Ah , Elisa said , yes , of course , she had made a mistake . |
| 8 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 9 | Some said that Ryan had made a mistake in failing to get everything ready in the block before he sent Sawyer off . |
| 10 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 11 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 12 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 13 | It was not his way to admit that he had made a mistake . |
| 14 | In an article in Capital Gay in February 1988 , Paul Davies argued that lesbians and gays had made a mistake in allowing our politics ‘ to be colonized by the Left ’ . |
| 15 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 16 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 17 | The solicitor who drafted the will later acknowledged that he had made a mistake . |
| 18 | They had made a mistake , that was all , and sent it to his son . |
| 19 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 20 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 21 | In January this year , the Legal Aid Board decided they had made a mistake , and withdrew legal aid . |
| 22 | The only one who ever admitted later that he had made a mistake was Kenneth Williams . ’ |
| 23 | I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 24 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 25 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 26 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 27 | Perhaps the boy had made a mistake — perhaps he was supposed to report directly to one of the warehouses instead . |
| 28 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 29 | I did say you had made a mistake . ’ |
| 30 | In among the monochrome massacre , someone had made a mistake ; there were brightly coloured Doris Day and James Garner in Move Over Darling . |