Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] a mistake " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it . |
2 | I asked Ulu Grosbard , who knew Nichols , to ask him what he felt about me : ‘ I think he feels he has made a mistake . |
3 | Nichols does feel he has made a mistake . ’ |
4 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
5 | Even if he has made a mistake they are still bound by it . |
6 | ‘ All through The Graduate Nichols thought he 'd made a mistake in casting me . |
7 | The climb was quickly repeated and downgraded , and Tribout ruefully admitted he 'd made a mistake . |
8 | For the first time , he 'd made a mistake . |
9 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
10 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
11 | I assumed he 'd made a mistake , but suppose he had n't ? |
12 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
13 | He 'd made a mistake in judgement , but that was his problem , not hers . |
14 | I mean even today he 'd made a mistake on that thing and you spotted it where I would n't have done . |
15 | I know he said he 'd made a mistake so I thought there were ten and there 's only five or something |
16 | Mr Etyang said : ‘ Professor Gresham may be an eminent pathologist in the UK , but he is a human being — could he have made a mistake ? |
17 | Ernie never would admit he had made a mistake with the horse . |
18 | It was not his way to admit that he had made a mistake . |
19 | The solicitor who drafted the will later acknowledged that he had made a mistake . |
20 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
21 | The only one who ever admitted later that he had made a mistake was Kenneth Williams . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The shock Nenna felt was as great as if he had made a mistake with the steering . |
24 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
25 | That is to say , he could not admit he had made a mistake in siding with the Axis , without jeopardizing his continuation in power . |
26 | From time to time he wondered whether he had made a mistake in sleeping with her . |
27 | He wondered whether he had made a mistake in sending the terrorist away . |