Example sentences of "lost [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , I 've only lost my sight — not my brains . |
| 2 | SINCE the start of this saga I 've lost my wife , who is currently staying in a homeless flat with two of the children . |
| 3 | ‘ I am afraid you have lost my wife 's vote , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns . |
| 5 | But Heller himself signed , like most people , ‘ because otherwise I would have lost my job , ’ he recalls frankly . |
| 6 | In order to discover what had outshone me , I bought the book , but by page 25 had entirely lost my way ( Bernard Levin , I read , managed to get to page 29 ) . |
| 7 | Seem to have lost my appetite . ’ |
| 8 | Lie lost my heart and soul . |
| 9 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |
| 10 | I knew too that he was supposed to have exclaimed , ‘ By God , sir , I 've lost my leg ! ’ and that the Duke , momentarily removing the telescope from his eye , replied , ‘ By God , sir , so you have ! ’ immediately resuming his scrutiny of the Prussians and his own ‘ infamous army ’ chasing Napoleon to his doom . |
| 11 | Three years passed , and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school . |
| 12 | I have recently lost my job , so please no critics . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've lost my handbag , ’ Nutty said . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd lost my way , you see . ’ |
| 15 | I have lost my consolation , my joy , I ca n't live without you . ’ |
| 16 | When I reflected on all this later I knew that I just should not have lost my temper . |
| 17 | I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams . |
| 18 | I seem to have lost my purse … ’ she explained . |
| 19 | Owing to such nice folk , warm and kindly , I have never lost my faith in humanity . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've lost my shoe . ’ |
| 21 | I simply seem to have lost my ability to play ! ! |
| 22 | ‘ I 've lost my helper , ’ he cried . |
| 23 | He said that after he came back from Margaret 's funeral , to which she did n't go , she seemed quite stunned and sat staring in front of her , and saying ‘ I 've lost my man ’ , over and over again . |
| 24 | ‘ At the time I had lost my husband and was very depressed . |
| 25 | Spitting Image creator Roger Law joked : ‘ I think I may have lost my OBE over this . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Now I 've been told that I 've lost my place and I 'm very disappointed . ’ |
| 27 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 28 | I 've lost my child , in a sense . |
| 29 | ‘ Because I 've lost my watch . ’ |
| 30 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |