Example sentences of "now [pers pn] have lost " in BNC.

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1 I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there .
2 Now I 've lost all my contacts and I 'm unemployed at the moment , y'know .
3 Susan thought : Now I 've lost him ; but he sat behind the wheel without starting the engine .
4 Now I 've lost my respect and my good name , and everybody laughs at me .
5 I I mean I 've got I 've read it once and and now I 've lost it
6 And now I 've lost him a second time , and this time for ever !
7 Now I 've lost my keys .
8 Now that 's yours , now I 've lost me
9 On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory .
10 Now I have lost my daughter ; you will lose your children , too . ’
11 OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned .
12 Now you 've lost me . ’
13 ‘ Got your arses whipped in Nicaragua , and now you 've lost it all in bloody buggering Arizona , ’ Jitters shouted , keeping up with the broken American .
14 Now you 've lost your job through your ex-boss 's devious manipulations I suppose you decided to try to move in permanently on me !
15 with weddings , if you do n't do it now you 've lost
16 By now she had lost sight of the dress bag .
17 Only now she had lost Jezrael for ever .
18 It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved .
19 I 'm to go with it now we 've lost you . ’
20 ROS : Now we 've lost the tension .
21 Because to me Danny Blanchflower , we lost England 's number one , now we 've lost Ireland 's number one , and it looks like we could even lose John , before long , of a similar type of er illness .
22 Now we 've lost a lot of resource erm in the clerical area , in this first quarter , t t to release people to go and do testing work we 've taken on temps .
23 Now we have lost the horses we may as well go back by the paths . ’
24 Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’
25 ‘ At first we rejected every compromise and now we have lost everything , ’ said one man .
26 You 'll be getting what is it in , they ca n't open now they 've lost the er , they 've lost some of er , they 've lost some sort of .
27 Now it has lost its boss , George Ball .
28 Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely .
29 Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself .
30 For now he had lost the friend who five weeks before the quarter day used to discount a bill for £10 ‘ at something like a trifling interest of 200 per cent . ’
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