Example sentences of "make a [adj] mistake and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's always hard to know what to do , it maybe that the couple have , have made a chronic mistake and who wants anybody to carry on in , in a painful and impossible situation ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Fergie has made a big mistake and I 'm sure the decision will haunt him for years to come . ’ |
| 4 | She admitted she had made a dreadful mistake and appealed for a reconciliation . |
| 5 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 6 | Yet there 's nothing sordid to it , so why ca n't they just accept that Rosemary made a terrible mistake and married a rotter . |
| 7 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 8 | But these breaches are frequently mere secondary symptoms of a fundamental problem : first making a factual mistake and then finding oneself propelled towards a wrong conclusion . |
| 9 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |