Example sentences of "[modal v] have lost [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottle you tasted six months ago is now softer and more appealing ; the one you drank yesterday should have lost its sharp edges by the summer . |
| 2 | ‘ That you should have lost your wife . |
| 3 | But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie . |
| 4 | Finally the interrogators must have lost their patience , or perhaps it was just the heat of the vodka . |
| 5 | ‘ We think these blackbirds must have lost their brood and taken on the bluetit chicks as substitutes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think you must have lost your mind . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry , I must have lost my place in the script . |
| 8 | Sir Geoffrey Howe , increasingly sidelined by events , must have lost his best moment when this week 's challenge failed seriously to wound the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Mait laughed , feeling that the Doctor must have lost his mind . |
| 10 | She 'll have lost her ticket … |
| 11 | I doubt we 'll have lost our man on Moncrieffe Hill . ’ |
| 12 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 13 | ‘ Last season in a similar sort of game , we might have lost our shape and the game . |
| 14 | I thought I might have lost my job , but I was n't sure . |
| 15 | ‘ I could have lost my life … ’ and the indignation was rich again in the Major 's voice . |
| 16 | I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands . |
| 17 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 18 | They may have lost their feudal rights and their privy purses , but in many of these formerly-gilded princedoms there remains a powerful bond between ex-rulers and ex-ruled . |
| 19 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 20 | The more experienced teachers , on the other hand , are generally more secure both in their competence and their status , but may have lost their fire . |
| 21 | They may have lost their apostles , but they have the Spirit of the Lord himself remaining with them to teach and to inspire . |
| 22 | Opthalmologist Bertil Damato has developed techniques which often enable him to save the eyes of patients who , in the past , may have lost their sight . |
| 23 | Although the country may have lost its strategic significance with the collapse of the Soviet Union , Washington is nevertheless concerned at the possibility of an unstable radical Islamic state growing up on the borders of the former Soviet Central Asia . |
| 24 | The name was often given to women by eighteenth century writers , and may have lost its meaning . |
| 25 | Wrestling may have lost its Saturday tea time slot on the telly , but the fans still love it and they pack in to watch when there 's a show in town ; and some show it was too this week . |
| 26 | Spitting Image creator Roger Law joked : ‘ I think I may have lost my OBE over this . ’ |
| 27 | Meanwhile Jansher Khan , the new world champion who had his $15,000 prize money withheld because he left the official dinner early , may have lost his chance of taking over as world No. 1 . |
| 28 | George may have lost his Lancashire accent , George may be a Bencher of Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 29 | He may have lost his life but he saved somebody else . |
| 30 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |