Sentence examples for made the first mistake from inspiring English sources

The test administrator made the first mistake.

Rio Ferdinand, who bore much of the criticism for defeat by Spurs, made the first mistake.

"It was important to get the crowd going, and you saw — it was Colorado that made the first mistake".

For lyric poetry of such high quality, these poems are remarkably uninterested in defending the privilege of the first-person singular: "in believing oneself to be just one / One made the first mistake".

"I said at half-time that we were looking, good, strong and dominant, and that the team which made the first mistake would probably lose the game," Rosler said.

"The owners probably made the first mistake when they sacked their executive chairman John Williams and their managing director Tom Finn and since then they've gone downhill," said Bevan of the situation at Blackburn.

The second mistake was making the first mistake, like it always is.

Fear of making the first mistake rendered the contest about as adventurous as life in a monastery.

When she first started playing in tennis tournaments, little Billie Jean Moffitt found her aggressive net-rushing style ineffectual against the "backcourters" — "the kids that are very steady, and play from the back court, and hit lobs all day" waiting for the opponent to make the first mistake.

"Being a pioneer means you have to make the first mistakes as well".

He didn't just theorise about cyberspace, he co-founded the Well, the pioneering online community in the 80s, and lived on it, fighting the first flame wars, the first trolls, making the first mistakes (he wishes he'd insisted the people used their real names rather than post anonymously, an innovation that may well have changed the web for the better).