Example sentences of "lost [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However when he came to Celebes ( hereafter referred to by its modern name , Sulawesi ) , even Alfred Wallace was lost for a complete explanation of how this large star-shaped island acquired its fascinating and unusual fauna . |
| 2 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 3 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 4 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 5 | The case is thought to be the first test of the obligation under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 to provide new land of " equal advantage " where public open space is lost through a compulsory purchase . |
| 6 | The radio said contact with the plane was lost during a severe sand storm in the evening . |
| 7 | Clara , when she looked hard , could just descry a bed , almost lost beneath a grey and pink flowered cover , a heap of books , and a large half-painted canvas . |
| 8 | The Princess of Wales , her face almost lost beneath a huge black velvet hat , looked on from a balcony at the nearby Foreign Office where she stood silently with the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal . |
| 9 | The gossiping and the cigar smoke carried strongly downwind to Nora , who had chosen a place to the south of the covert , where she could stand unseen in a gateway , her silhouette lost against a spreading oak at his back . |
| 10 | Curfews are broken , drinks are tanned , discos are dismantled , golden opportunities are recklessly squandered , and matches are won and lost with a callous disregard for the nation and its emotional stability . |
| 11 | I think he 's lost in a Victorian vision of Britain . ’ |
| 12 | Even the dogs would be hushed as she told the story of the highwayman who came riding , riding by , or the shipwrecked sailor lost in a terrible storm , or the faithful lady who died by the gun to warn her lover that he was riding into a Roundhead trap . |
| 13 | The no-hair theorem implies that a large amount of information is lost in a gravitational collapse . |
| 14 | An even closer parallel is John Milton 's masque of Comus , which Tolkien must have admired partly for its theme — it is an analogue of ‘ Childe Rowland ’ , a tale of a maiden lost in a dark wood and imprisoned by a wizard , till her brothers and her guardian angel come to the rescue — but even more for its hovering between fact and symbol . |
| 15 | It could illustrate that symbolic episode , common to fairy-tales and Gothic novels , in which the heroine , lost in a dark wood , comes suddenly upon a sunlit clearing . |
| 16 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 17 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 18 | Some of its grand design was lost in a Sixties refit . |
| 19 | That one blister I was rather proud of , is now lost in a rich crop of blisters , bloated , white , obscene — a big blister on each heel and sole , and small blisters disposed neatly on the underside of each toe . |
| 20 | If the ferret is lost in a small burrow system , simply block all other holes and then place cage traps tight to the main entrances . |
| 21 | Furthermore , my passport was lost in a postal strike in France , and the wheelbarrow was not yet ready , Hawker Siddeley having been hampered by staff shortage and technical snags . |
| 22 | The size of a piece of furniture can look amazingly different when placed in different surroundings — lost in a vast , tall room , overpowering in a small one . |
| 23 | The attack came less than three months after Sunday Life reported that a police file containing his address had been lost in a nationalist part of north Belfast . |
| 24 | You are lost in a strange country , among a lot of incomprehensible wogs going on about Twenty-fourthers and God knows what , and you are probably scared stiff ! ’ |
| 25 | The sun was setting , and the extent of the plain was lost in a crimson haze . |
| 26 | Mr Bates , 43 , of Hawkhurst , Kent , had flown to Miami in February last year to recover £500,000 he had lost in a crooked business deal . |
| 27 | To continue the analogy : the Empire was lost in a pragmatic adjustment to international reality — in the context of late twentieth-century professional demarcations will town planning be the loser in the redefinition of urban problems and preferences for their solution ? |
| 28 | Check out the untitled flip if you want disembodied childlike voices lost in a bass nightmare . |
| 29 | Check out the untitled flip if you want disembodied childlike voices lost in a bass nightmare . |
| 30 | The Government estimates that a third of the savings in public expenditure created by the abolition of these supplements was lost in a resulting increase in supplementary benefit payments . |