Example sentences of "i made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a bit of a speech and all that and er like a clever dick I went without me glasses . |
| 2 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 3 | I made a friend , though . |
| 4 | The teachers looked the same as the pupils and everyone was equal , ha , ha , though I made a fool of myself by calling the male teachers sir and females miss . |
| 5 | No that 's where it went a bit wobbly so I made a hook on it for a carriage . |
| 6 | But if I made a scene I 'm pretty sure it would be me who 'd come out looking like a fool . |
| 7 | It is not quite eight years since I made a beginning ; so that my plants must be considered as young ones . |
| 8 | The move has also helped financially because I made a profit on the house sale , and as this one is smaller the bills are much lower . |
| 9 | I made a mistake , and I 'm so stupid . |
| 10 | ‘ I made a mistake . |
| 11 | I made a mistake last night , I 'm sorry . |
| 12 | I made a mistake , an error of judgment . |
| 13 | I made a mistake . |
| 14 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 15 | I made a mistake . |
| 16 | But with only 34 days to the election , he said on TV : ‘ I made a mistake . |
| 17 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 18 | But looking at some still pictures of it I reckon I made a mistake early on which could have denied ‘ Obbo ’ of scoring a more orthodox try . |
| 19 | So , technically , I made a mistake in passing inside to my left to Candler . |
| 20 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh Frank , I made a mistake ! |
| 22 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 23 | ‘ I made a mistake casting her in the part and I felt very badly about it , ’ was all Warren Beatty would say . |
| 24 | I made a mistake by telling them the truth actually and they said you have admitted your fault . |
| 25 | Because I made a mistake once when a teacher told me that there was n't prejudice in this school . |
| 26 | I made a mistake of doing it then in such an organized atmosphere . |
| 27 | I used to get worked up if I made a mistake , I mean , I weave and a nervous breakdown spooling |
| 28 | Omar was a devout Muslim and like the best Somalis was proud and fearless , though he proved to be remarkably tactful and forbearing whenever I was impatient or angry , and always upheld my authority even when I made a mistake . |
| 29 | Perhaps I made a mistake . |
| 30 | ‘ I made a mistake , ’ she said . |