Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] lose [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd lost all interest in the music . |
| 2 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 3 | and I 'd lost half a stone in weight . |
| 4 | I got on well with Rosemary right from the start , soon realising that though I had lost one friend , I had found another . |
| 5 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |
| 6 | I had lost two teeth , one eye was closed , and an ear torn . |
| 7 | I had lost two stones since joining the RAF . |
| 8 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
| 9 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 10 | I had lost all my reading vision , and could now only read individual characters with a strong magnifier . |
| 11 | I had lost all joy in youth . |
| 12 | And further , I had no idea I had lost some 10,000ft by this stage . |
| 13 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 14 | It must have bewildered the matron , who watched practically every mouthful I ate , that by the end of term I had lost another two pounds . |
| 15 | After two weeks I felt better in myself and I had lost several pounds . |
| 16 | But a spokesman for Wrekin council , which admitted losing 600 protesters ' letters , said : ‘ There is nothing like it in Europe . |
| 17 | She was at least the image of an injured Stealer , blackened and fused by fire , one which had lost some appendages , perhaps lasered off , perhaps in an explosion ; a Stealer which still remained very much alive and able to use its deadly main claws . |
| 18 | The marriage restored the fortunes of the Grosvenor family , which had lost most of its enormous estates scattered across Britain , by siding with the King during the Civil War . |
| 19 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 20 | She 'd lost two babies before they had me . |
| 21 | She turned away disconsolately , certain she 'd lost all chance of his help in finding Corosini . |
| 22 | Besides , she 'd lost enough weight in the past weeks since she had walked out on Marcus not to have to worry about her seams splitting after the odd indulgence ! |
| 23 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |
| 24 | The new manager was n't having a go at the players who 'd lost two-nil to Sporting . |
| 25 | The house was built by a local architect called Cecil , an old man with a raspy white beard , who 'd lost half an arm to a wayward chainsaw . |
| 26 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 27 | She had lost four stones in four weeks . |
| 28 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 29 | One of the girls , the plump one with the freckles and the missing front tooth , looked very plain and dowdy now that she had lost all her pretty blonde curls . |
| 30 | Many hours later — she had lost all track of time and had fallen asleep — she had again been roughly shaken as her hiding-place was opened up and its contents removed . |