Example sentences of "[vb past] lost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trace Coley , who 'd lost a match and a lover in as many minutes , burst into tears . |
| 2 | It was easy to manage , but it felt like I 'd lost a limb ! |
| 3 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 4 | She 'd lost a few stone since the last time he 'd seen her and put on about half a ton of make-up . |
| 5 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 6 | He 'd lost a lot of relatives in the war . ’ |
| 7 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 8 | Well , in comes Alf , with 'is belly full of old and mild as usual , and asks me why do I look as if I 'd lost a pound and found thruppence . |
| 9 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 10 | Cos we used to swear like hell if they 'd lost a door |
| 11 | She was different herself , looking back on it : she 'd lost a certain naturalness , she did n't feel vivacious . |
| 12 | He 'd lost a penknife on the beach , Kate said . |
| 13 | He 'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals . |
| 14 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 15 | Des Little the signing from Swansea has been rested because er Frank Clarke felt he 'd lost a little bit of confidence in Forest 's poor start to the season . |
| 16 | In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance . |
| 17 | He 'd lost a lot more , Ruth noted . |
| 18 | She 'd lost a bit of weight anyway had n't she ? |
| 19 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 20 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 21 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 22 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 23 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 24 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | I had lost a father , ‘ someone to watch over me ’ who had done his best to do so , though he had failed . |
| 26 | The average wage in 1950 ( £6. 8s. 0d. ) had almost doubled by 1959 ( £11. 2s. 6d. ) but by then the pound had lost a third of its value . |
| 27 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 28 | Freya 's friend Anita 's remark that Freya was anorexic because she had lost a certain amount of body weight is , I feel , misleading , and as Freya rightly points out , she knew herself , deep down , that something was wrong . |
| 29 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 30 | Now his hunting rifle had lost a piece from its firing mechanism and he had been unable to replace it . |