EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An old woman who was lying on her side mistook me for a doctor, and called me to sit by her.
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At first he mistook her yells for laughter.
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But he escaped last night, and mistook Gay for some one else.
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For it mistook Darren and Michelle Fryer for a giant heating boiler.
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He was a very private man and some mistook this for aloofness.
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One night she heard an ambulance approach the hospital and mistook it for a fire engine.
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Thus, falling into the technocrats' natural sin, it mistook administrative device for organic substance.