Example sentences of "[verb] lost their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medically , it 's impossible for someone who has lost their sight due to glaucoma to get it back . ’ |
| 2 | It is , however , a way of living which many wise men have advised against , because if the loved person should not return the love , or be absent for some time , or worst of all , should die , then there is no misery worse than that of someone who has lost their sexually loved partner . |
| 3 | ‘ He has lost their trust and the Falkirk fans are not going to rest until they have seen both Deans off the premises . ’ |
| 4 | But someone wrote to say we 'd lost their vote because they were so appalled by Laura 's late hours ! ’ |
| 5 | Apparently they were doing a programme about monarchs who 'd lost their thrones and gone into exile . |
| 6 | Somebody from London that 'd lost their family |
| 7 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 8 | The Danuese might have thought they 'd lost their leaders , that there was no one else , and that 's the moment a frizzy-haired messiah will choose to come upon the scene . |
| 9 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 10 | Smith also told police the three men were half cut , they 'd lost their sense of safety . |
| 11 | They 'd lost their way a little , they 've come back a little and they 're going to win this Anglo-Italian match . |
| 12 | As local residents packed a meeting of Nailsworth Town Council in Gloucestershire , it looked as if they 'd lost their battle to save one of the town 's landmarks . |
| 13 | More than 50,000 Vietnamese ‘ boat people ’ waste their lives in squalid , overcrowded prison-like camps in Hong Kong , almost certainly having lost their gamble to secure a new life in the West . |
| 14 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 15 | They were like tiny aircraft following a demented flight-path , having lost their way . |
| 16 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 17 | You get usually women in their eighties who talk about their mothers as though they 're still there , or cry terrible tears of sadness at having lost their mothers . |
| 18 | The soldiers happily carried out their orders and , having lost their fruit , the inhabitants soon lost their desire for rebellion . |
| 19 | Very dismal accounts on the Papers respecting the last severe Weather — many , many People having lost their Lives thro' the inclemency of the same . |
| 20 | One of the main reasons for the BAA 's formation is , of course , the great potential for dangerous practice in abseiling , and the activity 's high accident rate in the past , with several well known climbers having lost their lives . |
| 21 | Between January 1971 and June 1981 , the EPA identified 153 closures or curtailments in firms of 25 or more workers , totalling 32,611 workers having lost their jobs ( Kazis and Grossman , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 23 | Having lost their serfs , they realized that they would have to alter not only the basis on which they conducted their money-raising activities , but also perhaps the activities themselves . |
| 24 | A Japanese government spokesman claimed that post mortems had revealed parasites in the animals ' ears which may have resulted in their having lost their sense of direction . |
| 25 | They may have lost their feudal rights and their privy purses , but in many of these formerly-gilded princedoms there remains a powerful bond between ex-rulers and ex-ruled . |
| 26 | But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie . |
| 27 | Had Robson 's calming influence been available to United against their neighbours , then they may not have lost their composure and the chance to move four points clear of Leeds . |
| 28 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 29 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 30 | The more experienced teachers , on the other hand , are generally more secure both in their competence and their status , but may have lost their fire . |