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Example sentences of "has made 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 .