Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have lose [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
| 2 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 3 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 4 | So I kept telling Vivienne and Bernie that I 'd lost the keys to my locker . |
| 5 | It was inconceivable that I 'd lost the bag forever . |
| 6 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 7 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 8 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 9 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I have lost a young constituent to one Ecstasy tablet ? |
| 10 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 11 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 12 | He had thought that he had done with her long ago , had assumed that she had lost the power to hurt him . |
| 13 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 14 | She nodded shakily , feeling cold now that she had lost the warmth of his body . |
| 15 | That she 'd lost the ability to concentrate on anything longer than two minutes at a time ? |
| 16 | ‘ I had not seen you for over six months , ma'am , it was merely surprise that you have lost a little colour … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It would probably take three years to prepare a new wicket of first-class standard and once you have lost a county fixture , it 's hard to get it back , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The sight of a fearsome bully , intent on picking a fight , may fill us with such terror when our imagination starts working that we have lost the battle before it has even begun . |
| 19 | What has happened however is that we have lost the philosophical framework which made the development of patristic Christology possible . |
| 20 | So we see that all the problems of correlation are just as real in recent history as they are in the stratigraphical record , once we have lost the advantage of the date at the top of the newspaper or letter . |
| 21 | ‘ That they 've lost a feeder . |
| 22 | Venture capital giant 3i had not used executive search at all in the past four years but mentioned that they had lost a number of people through headhunters . |
| 23 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 24 | There were cormorants , black , long-necked diving birds like those that fly low along Brazilian rivers , but here in the Galapagos , their wings were so small and with such stunted feathers that they had lost the power of flight . |
| 25 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 26 | As an example , take someone who tries to give up smoking and thinks that they have lost the fight completely when they want their first cigarette . |
| 27 | These people are not ‘ different ’ — they are the same as you and I , except that they have lost the ability to use their legs and have to rely on a wheelchair to get about . |
| 28 | Beyond the Second World War , though the View remains , they find that they have lost the Room for good . |
| 29 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 30 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |