Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] made mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've made mistakes and I 've gone and said things which I 'm not proud of but I 'm not at all dissatisfied with the way things are at the moment . |
| 2 | I 've made mistakes too numerous to mention , |
| 3 | I 've made mistakes in my time — we all have . |
| 4 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 5 | He agreed you 'd made mistakes , but said that a good King should always be generous , as our King is . |
| 6 | For all you can tell , it is relevantly similar to situations in which you have made mistakes . |
| 7 | The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now . |
| 8 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
| 9 | He has made mistakes , but nobody is more committed to opening up Australia 's still-stuffy economy . |
| 10 | ‘ I know he has made mistakes , but for the first time since Shanks took over in 1959 , a Liverpool manager has got a job to do . |
| 11 | He takes himself to have true premises and a valid inference to a true conclusion ; the premises might include the proposition that in the past he has made mistakes . |
| 12 | He 'd made mistakes , but he had salvaged them . |
| 13 | We all have to accept that each of us has made mistakes in the past — and , indeed , that we are going to make more in the future . |