Example sentences of "had lost a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kyle had won back two strokes with birdies at the 15th and 16th , but Des O'Grady had lost a ball off his drive at the 17th . |
| 2 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 3 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 4 | She had lost a stone and was too weak to whimper when rescued . |
| 5 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 6 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 7 | Hari felt cold panic wash over her , she had done the unforgivable , she had lost a customer 's boots . |
| 8 | ‘ We-e-e-ll — ’ The fatal pause , and my fate was sealed and British Rail had lost a customer . |
| 9 | The Russian historian from Southmoor in Oxfordshire had lost a libel action over allegations relating to Lord Aldington 's role in the forced repatriation of thousands of Cossacks after the Second World War . |
| 10 | Gently , I said I wondered whether she had lost a child , whether that was why she was so unhappy . |
| 11 | In the meantime they had lost a Sea Fury . |
| 12 | A sample of 225 women was selected from general practice registers to include a large number of women who had lost a parent in childhood . |
| 13 | But Shaughnessy had lost a battle , not the war . |
| 14 | This was like a general who had lost a battle or some important territory being disciplined or shot . |
| 15 | Two had lost a stirrup and the saddle of a third had slipped under its belly . |
| 16 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 17 | He had lost a bit of weight after the race at York but now seemed stronger , harder . |
| 18 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 19 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 20 | When he went , Kenny had lost a friend and a player of great talent and status at the same time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 23 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 24 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | I had lost a father , ‘ someone to watch over me ’ who had done his best to do so , though he had failed . |
| 26 | The clothes , the buildings , the pitch and intonation of voices speaking Amharic ; the smell of rancid butter , of red peppers and burning cow dung that permeated the town ; the packs of savage dogs that roamed the streets and whose howling rose and fell through the night ; an occasional corpse hanging on the gallows-tree ; beggars who had lost a hand or foot for theft ; debtors and creditors wandering round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ornaments , heaps of grain , vegetables , beer — all this combined to create a scene and an atmosphere unlike any other in the world . |
| 27 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Perhaps Reaumur 's most significant contribution to the biological sciences , however , was his observation of the regenerative power of certain crustaceans which had lost a limb . |
| 30 | Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all , might find herself in genuine distress . |