Example sentences of "i have make a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I can see I 've made a fool of myself again .
2 I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’
3 At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake .
4 I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck .
5 Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over .
6 So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it .
7 I 'd made a joke of it .
8 I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you .
9 Also , before I did that I 'd made a hoax call saying that Boots ’ chemist was on fire .
10 ‘ I began to wonder whether I 'd made a mistake over the arrangement .
11 I 'd made a commitment to the Branch Secretaries and to the Representatives that there will be a full Representatives Conference of which those proposals will be debated and discussed .
12 And even if I 'd made a mistake I 'd be honest enough to admit it .
13 For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course .
14 I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible .
15 I do n't like being proved wrong , and there was no way I was ever going to admit I 'd made a mistake .
16 But erm but I thought I 'd made a mistake somewhere .
17 And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness .
18 I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me !
19 I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well .
20 Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing .
21 Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night .
22 Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through .
23 But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book .
24 ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving .
25 I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two .
26 They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ .
27 It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home .
28 I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 I realized I had made a mistake .
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