Example sentences of "[adv] to have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed suddenly to have lost interest . |
| 2 | The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying . |
| 3 | He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before . |
| 4 | Vice-Admiral de Robeck , unaware of the true cause of the disaster and fearing the presence of land-based torpedoes , seems either to have lost his nerve or simply to have resolved on caution . |
| 5 | After that , the Minoans appear either to have lost interest in temple-worship , or to have restructured their economy in such a way that it could no longer sustain — or no longer needed — large temple-complexes . |
| 6 | She seemed again to have lost interest , in that swift way she had , and I felt useless and bereft . |
| 7 | It was maddening to have achieved so much and yet to have lost the object of it all . |