Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] make a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Your detective has made a mistake . ’ |