Example sentences of "have lost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 2 | If the process could eventually be made catalytic , though , they would have lost a money-spinner. h |
| 3 | At least one writer has speculated that Carver may recently have lost a son ( by circular argument , in that selfsame Stirling plague ) , but the truth is we simply do n't know what , if any , personal reference is composed into the music . |
| 4 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 5 | But then the newspaper boys would have lost a story ! |
| 6 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 7 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 8 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 9 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 10 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
| 11 | ‘ And take something for yourself ; you must have lost a day 's trading to chase after us . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 13 | Many of the people the organisation helps have lost a relative who has committed suicide . |
| 14 | Lancashire might easily have lost a second wicket when Nick Speak backed up too far . |
| 15 | ‘ Boro may have lost a couple of home games , but we always seem to be the whipping boys who allow teams to regain their form . ’ |
| 16 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 17 | erm you might have lost a lot . |
| 18 | He was n't particularly sadistic , for a malai , though he would have lost no sleep that night if he 'd terminated me . |
| 19 | ‘ When you have lost your Inns , drown your empty selves , for you will have lost the last of England . ’ |
| 20 | The latter will have lost the national telephone system , gas and steel industries , and the country 's largest airline . |
| 21 | ALLEGATIONS that the Department of Trade and Industry may have lost the taxpayer millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace are to be made by the National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog . |
| 22 | This implies that people who can not remember things may not have lost the information — but may need to access it differently . |
| 23 | Had he worried about the possibility of atomic warfare when he was attempting to split the atom , he would never have gone on ; and we would have lost the many benefits nuclear physics has given us , such as freely available power and treatment of disease . |
| 24 | He reminded us that if we had n't scored at Wolves we would have lost the game . |
| 25 | said I was not to say sixteen not sixty ’ and in so doing will have lost the game . |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 27 | Had such a regime already existed , the creditors of the recently collapsed Land Travel would not have lost the money — about £6.6m — that they had paid in advance for their holidays . |
| 28 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
| 29 | But for the quick thinking of the two officers — the first with his hunch about north Wales , the second with her code breaking — we might have lost the whole team . ’ |
| 30 | Back home , there 's ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ of a Christmas Number One and a nagging feeling they might have lost the plot . |