Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] lose [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 3 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 4 | Er well whe er when I first went to I 'd already lost two children and er the girls knew that I worked with the t last two children . |
| 5 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 6 | The fact that a wealth tax bore heavily on someone who turned out to lose all his capital would not on an ex ante basis be regarded as indicating a regressive impact , but in terms of measured income ( allowing for the loss ) it might appear that way . |
| 7 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 8 | Trade unionists did not lose Labour the last election . |
| 9 | As the communist terrorists lacked any real anti-aircraft defences , 1 Squadron did not lose any aircraft to hostile action whilst on operations . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she gasped , and unable to believe that he should think such a thing , let alone say it , she was not sure she did not lose some of her colour . |
| 11 | He saw it as his mission to make sure the Prime Minister did not lose this crucial vote . |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't lose that list of questions ? ’ she demanded . |
| 13 | Liverpool 's main Euro trait down the years was always that the Reds did n't lose many goals in these type of games . |
| 14 | Recorded , the sound did n't lose any of its character , and only a touch of hi-mid EQ was needed to make the sound work mixed onto cassette . |
| 15 | ‘ And Rupert , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ I am glad to see you did n't lose any of your hair after last Thursday . ’ |
| 16 | Did n't lose any sleep over it . |
| 17 | Well it , according to what I read before , they say they staple the stomach down to the size of er , of a tea spoon , so presumably she , her stomach must only receive , she must of been eating twenty four hours a day , you know , to keep they , she did n't lose any weight , the other girl did , but er |
| 18 | Surely they did n't lose both : as Lady Bracknell might have said , that looks like carelessness . |
| 19 | ‘ The important thing is , he did n't lose enough blood to need a transfusion , so no hospital . ’ |
| 20 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 21 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 22 | However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual . |
| 23 | The Board of the Admiralty asked the College of Physicians to investigate the possibilities of such a cure against scurvy , a disease that had hitherto lost naval engagements , without a fight . |
| 24 | After all , he had only lost one toe . |
| 25 | On the other hand Leeds handed out a whopping defeat on a team who had only lost 1 of their first 9 and whose manager had just won manager of the month for September . |
| 26 | ‘ Have n't you lost loads of weight ! ’ they would say , though in fact she had only lost 6 pounds . |
| 27 | ‘ They had already lost one boat , their clothes were in rags , and all they had to eat was mouldy flour and a few dried apples . |
| 28 | Security chiefs claimed that this was the most damaging blow yet struck against the cartel , which had already lost two prominent figures , José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha ( shot dead by police on Dec. 15 , 1989 — see p. 37119 ) and its military leader John Jairo Arias Tascón , who was shot dead in June during a police operation . |
| 29 | By 1907 , the year that preceded the painting of the Baigneuse , Fauvism had already lost much of its original impetus , and Braque , like the other Fauves , had for some time been searching for some more solid basis for his art . |
| 30 | Out of the Regal Trophy and falling behind in the League where they had already lost four games , Wigan players and coaching staff held a meeting to iron out problems caused by a lengthy early season injury list and the loss of Ellery Hanley , to Leeds . |