Example sentences of "they have lost [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 2 | When I went on stage in Tain , the Western Isles had lost £8 million ; when I came off , there were 14 messages on the pager , and they 'd lost £23 million . |
| 3 | And when they 'd separated after the cash had run out , his mother had coped ; Stuart 's father had gone abroad , eventually they 'd lost touch . |
| 4 | They said they 'd lost touch . |
| 5 | They 've lost sight of there — oh , I 've got to get going , what 's your schedule . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've lost direction , and the working class is taking liberties . ’ |
| 7 | They 've lost matches , Oxford , take West Ham ; there 's nothing between them , we lost two nil there , West Ham scored seven on Saturday . |
| 8 | Well they 've lost their company they 've lost control of their company . |
| 9 | Because they 've lost blood |
| 10 | Williams is anything but surprised that both Palace and Forest are in trouble , saying : ‘ We 've lost key players like Mark Bright and Ian Wright and they 've lost people like Des Walker and Teddy Sheringham . |
| 11 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 12 | Student grants are to be eroded by inflation until a 50:50 grant loan is arrived at , they 've lost unemployment pay for the vacations , not to mention housing benefit . |
| 13 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 14 | They had lost members and they had lost money by taking to the streets . |
| 15 | He caught a glimpse of the mast , a cable or two downwind , and it began to dawn on him that they had lost sight of him . |
| 16 | Surely the reason for the rebuke , why he said that they were timid and they 'd no faith was because they had lost sight of the fact , or the , the importance of the fact that he was there with them . |
| 17 | On May 28 , ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search . |
| 18 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 19 | Especially the ‘ ancient ’ family who had sold her the house and now , pathologically , could not forgive her for buying it , since they had lost caste by moving away — unfortunately for Jane , only a mile away . |
| 20 | They had lost members and with them revenue both in this country and overseas . |
| 21 | They had lost members and they had lost money by taking to the streets . |
| 22 | By the close of the first day , though , they had lost Broad , and Pat Pocock , going in as nightwatchman , had told the England physiotherapist Bernard Thomas that he had cleaned his teeth and gargled in case Thomas had to give him the kiss of life . |
| 23 | It was the culmination of a remarkable advance by the SPD since the late 1950s , when they had lost election after election . |
| 24 | It just fell apart once they had lost confidence in him . |
| 25 | Controllers in Strasbourg said that they had lost radio contact with the airliner without warning and that no distress signals had been released . |
| 26 | The beam of X-rays was of course scattered by the collision , but Compton discovered that the wavelengths of some of the scattered X-rays had increased — they had lost energy . |
| 27 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 28 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 29 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 30 | They had lost weight by taking appetite suppressors , fasting or going on highly restrictive diets they could not sustain , avoiding all favourite foods . |