It was a genuine mistake, I'd rushed to get the car done and didn't even consider the weight.

The first time I accepted that it was a genuine mistake, although the staff offered no apology and didn't seem surprised.

I am totally satisfied that he made a genuine mistake.

Perhaps there was a genuine mistake about the cake and he had come for it.

I know that operations can go wrong and people make genuine mistakes.

You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation.

I wonder whether you would accept a genuine mistake.

I hope you will accept that as a genuine mistake, and the record can be amended accordingly.

He was not sure, and Smith, pleading a genuine mistake, he had let the matter drop.

I do not accept that this was a genuine mistake.