Example sentences of "had lost a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freya 's friend Anita 's remark that Freya was anorexic because she had lost a certain amount of body weight is , I feel , misleading , and as Freya rightly points out , she knew herself , deep down , that something was wrong . |
| 2 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 3 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 4 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 5 | The regime of President Fidel Castro had lost a major source of economic and military aid with the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The author knows of a client who did this after he had lost a frightful lot of money . |
| 7 | Before Lee 's win , Lingdale 's Stephen Swales had lost a controversial majority points decision to Peterborough 's Liam Maltby at junior A 45kg even Maltby told him he had been robbed . |
| 8 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 9 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 10 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 11 | Their 4-1 defeat by Australia here last year was the first time they had lost a one-day series at home . |
| 12 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 13 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 14 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 15 | Christopher Knox , defending , said yesterday Herron had lost a promising career . |
| 16 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 17 | Hugh was already committed to the marathon trip when he heard that the special care school had been burgled and had lost a vital computer and software , which is crucial in helping the children 's development |
| 18 | On top of the recession , British Gas had lost a large part of its industrial commercial market as a result of an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 19 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 20 | For the little boy who had found a family could not begin to understand the anguish he had unwittingly caused to the family who had lost a little boy … |