Example sentences of "have lose a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mexico , especially in rural areas , it operates as an important principle of social organisation while , in Chile , it has lost a lot of its formal and obligatory nature and is not very meaningful for many people . |
| 2 | ‘ This place has lost a lot of lustre . ’ |
| 3 | GrandMet has lost a lot of froth since giving two warnings in just a month of less than fizzing profits . |
| 4 | Old Mrs Rogers has lost a lot of her marbles but she 'd surely know if it was someone actually living along there . ’ |
| 5 | By future I mean a couple of seasons from now , the current season although not a write off by any means has lost a lot of meaning the league appears once again to be going to the scum and we 're out of the League cup thingy . |
| 6 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 7 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | He 'd lost a lot of relatives in the war . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Both Heinrichs papers having lost a lot of money , Lonrho amalgamated the Zambia Times and the Northern News into the Times of Zambia while continuing to publish the Zambia News as a Sunday paper . |
| 12 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
| 13 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 14 | Merle Latham , from the local St John Ambulance , said : ‘ The man was supposed to have lost a lot of blood and was covered in gory make-up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 17 | His pride was shared by the rest of the family who were there in the front pews behind them — Hana , with little Jitka in her arms , Uncle Mick , who looked so much older all of a sudden , Carmella , who was much the same , but Joey had lost a lot of his old sunny quality and slumped sullenly in his place . |
| 18 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 19 | ‘ She had lost a lot of blood and was in a state of shock lying on the footpath at the end of an alleyway . |
| 20 | The lump on my head had lost a lot of weight during the night and after five minutes under a tepid shower I was n't feeling too bad . |
| 21 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 22 | The girls , Diana and Mary Rivers , had to work as governesses , as their father had lost a lot of money in business . |
| 23 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 24 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 25 | But it seemed Lucie had lost a lot of weight since the last time they had played it . |
| 26 | ‘ With having such a long time off , I 've lost a lot of speed but the endurance is still there , which of course is the key for anyone on the ultra scene . |
| 27 | You 're not really a big star these days until you 've lost a lot of money trying to run your own restaurant . |
| 28 | ‘ It took quite a while to stitch me up , but everything 's all right now , although they say I 've lost a lot of blood from the placental bleed . ’ |
| 29 | but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it . |
| 30 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |