Example sentences of "they [vb past] lose [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cos we used to swear like hell if they 'd lost a door |
| 4 | Somewhere along the way , they 'd lost the Daimler . |
| 5 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 6 | The German defenders had pulled out and , from their new positions , they had lost no time in setting up their mortars . |
| 7 | They had lost no time . |
| 8 | Their 4-1 defeat by Australia here last year was the first time they had lost a one-day series at home . |
| 9 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 10 | In the meantime they had lost a Sea Fury . |
| 11 | Venture capital giant 3i had not used executive search at all in the past four years but mentioned that they had lost a number of people through headhunters . |
| 12 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 13 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 14 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 15 | Largely as a result , they had lost the ability to construct complex and resonant narratives . |
| 16 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 17 | I heard of people with only one kidney and enquired eagerly whether they had lost the other through cancer . |
| 18 | There were cormorants , black , long-necked diving birds like those that fly low along Brazilian rivers , but here in the Galapagos , their wings were so small and with such stunted feathers that they had lost the power of flight . |
| 19 | The Spartans subsequently felt guilt at having started the war : there is a revealing sentence in Thucydides ( vii.18 ) which says that they came to think they had lost the war of 431–421 because ‘ they themselves had sinned ’ when the Thebans attacked Plataia when the ‘ libations ’ were still in force . |
| 20 | It was even more important to do this quickly , because they had no food and they had lost the horses . |
| 21 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 22 | She says if they had lost the case it would have opened the flood gates fort many more people to claim gypsy status and demand sites from the council . |