Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've lost it forever . |
| 2 | but I 've , but I 've lost my baytree . |
| 3 | but I 've lost a few pounds since last week . |
| 4 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 5 | I could print out pictures of the insects ' bodies , but I had lost their genes . |
| 6 | ‘ It was n't very large , ’ she said desperately , ‘ it was n't as if it were important — but I have lost it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I have lost your telephone number ’ |
| 8 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 9 | Maybe not today , but you 've lost at some stage in the future when you least need to lose . |
| 10 | You may win the battle but you 've lost the war . |
| 11 | But you 've lost the , the overall shape of it . |
| 12 | Sorry , Terry , but you 've lost me there . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But you 've lost fifteen months of Thomas 's life , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I know but you 've lost the . |
| 15 | ‘ But you have lost two mormaers . ’ |
| 16 | When she first came to the sand , a long time ago , she had had a pocketful of pills and squeezers , but she had lost interest in them . |
| 17 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 18 | At that moment all I wanted to hear was more of her story , but she 'd lost interest in that now . |
| 19 | Selma has a son in Germany , but she has lost contact with him . |
| 20 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 21 | She was very patient but we 'd lost time . |
| 22 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 23 | But we 've lost only six or seven of our last 42 games and that 's pleasing . ’ |
| 24 | We still have similar reasons , but we have lost the drum . |
| 25 | It 's regrettable but we have lost all the service records . |
| 26 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 27 | But they had lost ten yards in the manoeuvre , and the Zodiac was almost back into the surf . |
| 28 | Not only was the great forest of Wychwood being felled , but they had lost their manor and the family who had governed their lives from time immemorial . |
| 29 | But they 've lost eight home matches this season , one of the worst records in the division . |
| 30 | But they 've lost . |