Example sentences of "i have lost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy to manage , but it felt like I 'd lost a limb ! |
| 2 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Well , in comes Alf , with 'is belly full of old and mild as usual , and asks me why do I look as if I 'd lost a pound and found thruppence . |
| 5 | In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance . |
| 6 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 7 | I had lost a father , ‘ someone to watch over me ’ who had done his best to do so , though he had failed . |
| 8 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 9 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 10 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 11 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 12 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 13 | Erm , well my particular case was cut and dry , no medical miracles , as I say , could help me because I had lost a baby at six months during the labour and erm in order to save to my life I had a hysterectomy so there was no possibility of I V F , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 14 | Every time I go through a lean spell I 've lost a yard ; every time I score a goal it means I 'm over the hepatitis . |
| 15 | Norwich manager Dave Stringer said : ‘ This is the second time I 've lost a semi-final and it does n't get any easier to accept . |
| 16 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 22 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
| 23 | Apart from the tarpaulin and the mattresses , I 've lost a couple of sleeping bags , some tracksuit bottoms and some trainers . |
| 24 | I 've lost a nought , thirty thousand a year |
| 25 | Somewhere in my house I 've lost a twenty pound note . |
| 26 | I 've lost a child ! |
| 27 | Oh I 've lost a quid ! |
| 28 | but I 've lost a few pounds since last week . |
| 29 | Ooh I 've lost a stitch here |
| 30 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |