Example sentences of "[noun prp] have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Brian is loud-mouthing Sir Bernard , who is assaulting the other five with caustic wit ; Sir Oliver has fallen off his mount ( pissed ) , Sir Keith ( famed for sartorial elegance ) is annoyed about the dragon blood on his armour ; Sir Kenneth has lost his specs and makes a quixotic charge in the wrong direction ; and Sir Malcolm is miffed by all this disorderly conduct . |
| 2 | Because Kenamun has lost his best man , and I have no faith in his ability to solve this on his own . |
| 3 | In Central America , more than a quarter of the rainforest has been converted to grass for grazing , and Costa Rica has lost one third of its rainforest to cattle ranchers . |
| 4 | According to a report by Dr Chris Van Sway of the government funded Dutch Butterfly Foundation , the Netherlands has lost 15 of its 63 species and 10 more could be under threat . |
| 5 | Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week . |
| 6 | And Platt rapped back at criticism that Taylor has lost his ability to motivate his players . |
| 7 | Steffi has lost at least four times this year to Sabatini . |
| 8 | And they dispute the claim that Kuwait has lost $1 billion in Spain , alleging in their turn that $1.5 billion was spirited back to Kuwait through a network of offshore funds held by Kuwaiti citizens . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the surviving harpsichord by Hitchcock has lost its stop knobs : it would have been most useful to compare them with the painting . |
| 10 | ‘ But Eleanor has lost all sense of the present . |
| 11 | The second pitch of Syringe has lost a hold and is now 6a ( same E grade ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Lucy has lost an eye , lost her father and now she faces losing her dearest friends . ’ |
| 13 | UIE has lost a vital contract for BP 's Andrew field to an english yard . |
| 14 | ‘ You may do , but there 's an aura about you Dana has lost . ’ |
| 15 | Either way , the United States has lost ground . |
| 16 | When they heard Plymouth had lost to Blackburn the celebrations began . |
| 17 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 18 | Albert was the first to know the Mr Gregory had lost his seat but had to restrain himself from swinging from the Assembly Rooms chandeliers in celebration . |
| 19 | William Zimmerman , who offers a detailed and convincing analysis of Soviet perspectives at this time ( Zimmerman : 1969 ) , states that by far the most important aspect of the changed situation for Soviet commentators was that ’ the United States had lost its privileged position of strategic invulnerability ’ . |
| 20 | The editor then closed the correspondence on the Foreign Office and Jackson thought that though Ruskin 's intervention , Scott had lost in Freeman ‘ the best champion of his cause ’ . |
| 21 | The only secret she had with Travis was about Rosemary , but , since Naylor had never heard of Rosemary , he could n't have sensed that Travis had lost his heart to her neighbour , could he ? |
| 22 | It seemed as if , after eighteen months of complete stalemate on the Western Front , with neither side able to make a breakthrough , the subordinate German commanders at Verdun had lost confidence to succeed where so many others had failed . |
| 23 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 24 | But Edward had lost interest , apparently . |
| 25 | But Edward had lost interest in easy conquests for the present , and Erica hinted at the ending of an affair when she had left the States . |
| 26 | Before Lee 's win , Lingdale 's Stephen Swales had lost a controversial majority points decision to Peterborough 's Liam Maltby at junior A 45kg even Maltby told him he had been robbed . |
| 27 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 28 | Kyle had won back two strokes with birdies at the 15th and 16th , but Des O'Grady had lost a ball off his drive at the 17th . |
| 29 | Martha mopped and scraped away for almost half an hour , long after Tilda had lost interest . |
| 30 | Tilda had lost interest in what was being said and had gone to fetch Stripey , who was being pursued across Maurice by a rat . |