Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 3 | It had been a mistake to get together again — a symptom of their immaturity , their enslavement to Cambridge . |
| 4 | The thing between himself and Isobel had been so long ago he had difficulty remembering it , and it had been a mistake from the first . |
| 5 | It had been a mistake ever to force herself upon them . |
| 6 | Ah , it had been a mistake to mention Jews . |
| 7 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 8 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 9 | She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem . |
| 10 | He was right , of course ; it had been a mistake , and one which she had no intention of repeating . |
| 11 | That it had been a mistake to come back to Eastlake ? |
| 12 | It had been a mistake to think that she could not be hurt again . |
| 13 | Perhaps it had been a mistake to dismiss him so summarily after all , she thought with dissatisfaction . |
| 14 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |
| 15 | It had been a mistake on her part to appoint him chairman of the Party in the 1980s , the twin conditions of the appointment being , as she remembered , the removal of his ‘ dreadful ’ beard and the dropping of the ‘ Selwyn ’ . |
| 16 | It had been a mistake . |
| 17 | It had been a mistake . |
| 18 | It had been a mistake to think anything could change . |