Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 2 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 3 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 6 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 7 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 8 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 9 | Ah , Elisa said , yes , of course , she had made a mistake . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 12 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
| 13 | She dropped the dear , she had made a mistake there , he was not the sort you called dear . |
| 14 | She had made a mistake and would make many more before she was finished . |
| 15 | She squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head , hiding behind her curtain of auburn curls , battling with the tears , battling with the fact that it mattered because she had made a mistake again . |
| 16 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 17 | She knew she had made a mistake in not showing more surprise to the police . |
| 18 | I did say you had made a mistake . ’ |
| 19 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 20 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 21 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 22 | They had made a mistake , that was all , and sent it to his son . |
| 23 | In January this year , the Legal Aid Board decided they had made a mistake , and withdrew legal aid . |
| 24 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 25 | Ernie never would admit he had made a mistake with the horse . |
| 26 | It was not his way to admit that he had made a mistake . |
| 27 | The solicitor who drafted the will later acknowledged that he had made a mistake . |
| 28 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 29 | The only one who ever admitted later that he had made a mistake was Kenneth Williams . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |