Example sentences of "get lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 2 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 3 | It was n't your fault that Mark got lost in the Sahara was it. ? |
| 4 | ‘ I was in London once , with another feller , and we got lost on the Underground , ’ Peter said . |
| 5 | Deciding to cut my losses , I fled Ulm and promptly got lost in one of its industrial suburbs . |
| 6 | On his way back with the water , he got lost on detour around a fallen tree , and as he looked for his way through the woods , he heard a voice ask from the underbrush , ‘ Have you anything to drink ? ’ |
| 7 | ON THE WAY to the pantry to get the Christmas cookies , Nina got lost . |
| 8 | I just got lost . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There 's wee Bobby , him that got lost at sea . ’ |
| 10 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 11 | I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost . |
| 12 | ‘ The roads were terrible , and I got lost . ’ |
| 13 | She got lost in the labyrinth of yards and passageways that separated the numerous buildings , many of them apparently disused or derelict , that covered the factory site , and there was nobody around to direct her . |
| 14 | Tweed got lost driving into Freiburg . |
| 15 | Then , unlike Queenie , he got lost for words . |
| 16 | Coleridge remembered with bewilderment the occasions of some more memorable disagreements on the subject : during a strawberry party at Long Ashton ; crossing the bridge below Bristol High Street after visiting the Fricker family ; on a two-day excursion to Chepstow and Tintern with Joseph Cottle , Edith and Sara , during which , with poetical appropriateness , they all got lost in pitch darkness above Tintern Abbey and Southey ‘ marched on like a pillar of strength , with a lady pressing on each arm ’ . |
| 17 | This made cycling quite exciting , for if you got lost , there were no indications to follow , and people were discouraged from giving directions to strangers . |
| 18 | I promptly got lost . |
| 19 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 20 | ‘ I got lost , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Of the nine plays scheduled in 1987 , two never turned up on the day , and one got lost between King Cross and the Piece Hall and the players abandoned hope and went home . |
| 22 | And then I got lost . |
| 23 | ‘ Eat up , ’ she said , ‘ There were going to be potatoes but I got lost chanting mantras . |
| 24 | In addition , when cattle got lost , or were eaten by wild animals , their owners sometimes assumed that they had been stolen and instituted a prosecution against known cattle thieves . |
| 25 | Just get in the car and go — if you got lost just stop and ask . |
| 26 | ‘ I got lost in the fog , ’ Frankie said , looking at his feet . |
| 27 | Tell 'im we got lost in the blackout ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a wilderness atmosphere here and they actually got lost , ’ said Sam Ashelman , co-owner of the Coolfont Park . |
| 29 | FOUR Russian dancers holidaying at Cobham Hall in Kent got lost on a jog and ended up 50 miles away . |
| 30 | ‘ Your geese never got lost , ’ he said . |