Example sentences of "just lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 2 | We were n't trouble , just lost . |
| 3 | ‘ To do a deal with the Liberal Democrats would be to help put in power a party which has just lost a share of its vote , ’ said one source . |
| 4 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 5 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
| 6 | Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair . |
| 7 | In a similar way , ‘ mat ’ might be a neutral word for you — unless , perhaps , you are a member of the Islamic faith when it may be associated with your religious observances , or ( at a lower level ) you may have just lost a great deal of money in an investment in floor coverings ! |
| 8 | Sarah 's just lost 'er husband , and she can stay as long as she likes . |
| 9 | A few days later , Grace McNeil , who had just lost a much-loved Rough Collie and had been sent to us by her vet , came and took the young male , Robbie . |
| 10 | I put ads in the dog press , and a chap from the Isle of Wight showed interest as he 'd just lost his . |
| 11 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 12 | The first part of the remark was tautologous ( show me a peaceful terrorist ) ; and the second was untrue : Gerry Adams had just lost his West Belfast constituency . |
| 13 | To have just lost and not been so dreadful might not have had the same impact . |
| 14 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 15 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 16 | With this mysterious absence of ‘ stain' goes a forgetting of grief ; though the Fellowship has just lost Gandalf in Moria , the fact is not mentioned for some twenty pages ( I , 350–70 ) , and indeed we are told that ‘ In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring ’ . |
| 17 | Or maybe it was just lost . |
| 18 | H-M had just lost another man . |
| 19 | I am 26 and have just lost my virginity after a year-long relationship . |
| 20 | Solomon had just lost the third set to go two sets to one down , the crowd was baying for American blood . |
| 21 | The weatherman 's just lost it off the long-range radar screen . |
| 22 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 23 | Try walking into that dressing-room after they had just lost by an innings . |
| 24 | I was just lost . |
| 25 | Professor Garrow 's studies show that a 10-stone woman who has just lost 20lb can eat the same amount — without gaining weight — as a 10-stone woman who has always weighed that amount . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've just lost everything we 've made . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I hope I 've misunderstood , but it seems to me that Ace 's romantic attachment has just lost us our last chance to prevent this , ’ she waved her arms in a circle , ‘ this monstrosity from wiping out an entire planetary system and its inhabitants . |
| 28 | Tito 's troops entered Carinthia on 6 May and on 8 May only just lost to 5 Corps the race to be the first to enter the provincial capital Klagenfurt . |
| 29 | Unfortunately again for the Conservatives , the stern measures taken by the government added to its unpopularity , not to that of the miners and , after a series of mistakes or misfortunes in the campaign , the Conservatives just lost . |
| 30 | if you do n't if you 're just lost you feel daft do n't you . |