Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck . |
| 2 | ‘ I began to wonder whether I 'd made a mistake over the arrangement . |
| 3 | And even if I 'd made a mistake I 'd be honest enough to admit it . |
| 4 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 5 | I do n't like being proved wrong , and there was no way I was ever going to admit I 'd made a mistake . |
| 6 | But erm but I thought I 'd made a mistake somewhere . |
| 7 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 8 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 9 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 12 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 13 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you know , perhaps I 've made a mistake . |
| 15 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 16 | I 've made a mistake . |
| 17 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In among the monochrome massacre , someone had made a mistake ; there were brightly coloured Doris Day and James Garner in Move Over Darling . |
| 20 | I hope that is your surname , if I have made a mistake , you will probably understand why I 'm sure . |
| 21 | ‘ Ye 've made a mistake ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But perhaps ye have made a mistake and it is really the Sicilian woman … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You must tell your friend , ’ continued the lady , ‘ that she has made a mistake . |
| 24 | You 've made a mistake . |
| 25 | I do think you 've made a mistake Carl . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps … perhaps you 've made a mistake ? ’ |
| 27 | And you 've made a mistake about something else . |
| 28 | You 've made a mistake ; please go and I 'll forget the way you forced your way in here . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes if you 've made a mistake and the parallel I 'm drawing is with the Jewish community in Jesus time . |
| 30 | Saturday you wo n't admit you 've made a mistake or that you 're in the wrong , while Sunday you will be hurt and offended by someone who does n't show you the respect you feel you deserve . |