Example sentences of "'ve lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've lost interest in it , I said . |
| 3 | I 've lost it , thought Jay . |
| 4 | ‘ People who 've lost a Rottweiler often want another adult dog , rather than encourage the puppy market . |
| 5 | ‘ But they will lose their reason , ’ says Peter Verkhovensky 's lieutenant when Peter has argued that the quintet will hold together after the murder ‘ unless they 've lost their reason ’ . |
| 6 | Every time I go through a lean spell I 've lost a yard ; every time I score a goal it means I 'm over the hepatitis . |
| 7 | I know I 'm new , and I 've lost everything . |
| 8 | SINCE the start of this saga I 've lost my wife , who is currently staying in a homeless flat with two of the children . |
| 9 | Pop looms as the largest thing in our lives , but as something we 've lost control of . |
| 10 | Uncle Walter wo n't be too pleased if you 've lost it . ’ |
| 11 | And as for him going up Back Clough Dale and mithering the folk up there , and all for nothing — well , I reckon you 've lost your brains , my lad , to think of such a thing . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've lost track , ’ said Bella , ‘ they must have give me something to make me sleep . |
| 13 | I 'm to go with it now we 've lost you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've lost touch with mother nature these days . ’ |
| 15 | The only things I think about are calorie-counting and weighing myself , and making sure that I do n't put on the weight I 've lost , and passing my O levels . |
| 16 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 17 | On the other hand , something like walking past a building site in the summer in shorts is much easier now that I 've lost weight . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I 've lost me appetite . ’ |
| 19 | You 've lost your touch and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 20 | Norwich manager Dave Stringer said : ‘ This is the second time I 've lost a semi-final and it does n't get any easier to accept . |
| 21 | ‘ Nobody told us , the noise has increased and we 've lost some much needed greenery not to mention wildlife , ’ said Mrs Ford . |
| 22 | ‘ But it does n't matter if you 've lost it . |
| 23 | We 've lost all our clothes and gear , ’ Cyril complained . |
| 24 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 27 | And in the past four decades we 've lost half of it . |
| 28 | Suddenly , we 've lost our place . |
| 29 | But I 've lost it forever . |
| 30 | We 've lost acres and acres of woodland to fast grain farming . |