Example sentences of "had lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 2 | Mrs Yardley 's husband had lost his job recently , and Phipps held the mortgage on the little cottage they were so proud of . |
| 3 | Mr Merrivale , clearly , had lost favour . |
| 4 | ' He had lost his thread and Cameron 's head was too ravelled to think much about it anyway . |
| 5 | By contrast , the other patient ( known as ‘ T ’ ) , was able to judge facial expression normally but had lost the ability to lip-read . |
| 6 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 7 | Her nan had lost her hearing working in the textile m ills . |
| 8 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 9 | Yet , long after the North East had lost its separate region , on 4 April 1988 East Anglia was given independence . |
| 10 | The last big East End brewery had lost its independence . |
| 11 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 12 | this was the centre that he had lost . |
| 13 | In 1984 , foresters found that 20 per cent of the Norway spruce in West Germany 's forests had lost more than a quarter of their needles . |
| 14 | It had lost all faith in China ; it had sided against the leadership which had prevailed ; and now , in its hour of need , it found no prospect of comfort from its own supposedly sovereign power , Britain . |
| 15 | Evert 's prediction was spot-on as Minter grabbed a thrilling 6-3 , 2-6 , 6-4 victory that saved Australia 's bacon after Liz Smylie had lost the opening singles rubber 6-2 , 6-1 to Katerina Maleeva . |
| 16 | By the encore the chubby middle-aged chap in front of me , like many in the hall , had lost all touch with decorum , and , during ‘ Summertime Blues ’ was standing on his seat , windmilling his arms over the strings of his air guitar . |
| 17 | It seemed that the police , in Leipzig at least , had lost their enthusiasm for beating up citizens pressing for change . |
| 18 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 19 | Despite disappointment in the City , the pound had lost only 0.5 pfennigs by the close to finish in London at DM2.9562 . |
| 20 | Last week Morocco claimed it had killed or wounded 80 Polisario guerrillas and had lost 14 soldiers , including a colonel , when Polisario attacked its defences near the Mauritanian border . |
| 21 | Before the Kiwis arrived Britain had lost Ellery Hanley and Garry Schofield , two of their most experienced and feared performers . |
| 22 | The German defenders had pulled out and , from their new positions , they had lost no time in setting up their mortars . |
| 23 | During this and other actions in the area , the Commandos had lost many men , killed , wounded and missing . |
| 24 | Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy . |
| 25 | The nostrums of statism , centralization , and planning had lost much of their thrust with the stagflation and popular disaffection of the 1970s . |
| 26 | Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency . |
| 27 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For some months in 1981 the Chancellor , Sir Geoffrey Howe , had lost the confidence of Cabinet colleagues . |
| 30 | Sir William Hildred , who as Director-General at the new Ministry of Civil Aviation was Britain 's senior civil servant in charge of aviation , told a meeting in September 1945 that he had lost interest in the Bristol 167 because its undercarriage width of 93 feet was wider than any runway then in existence , and two prototypes were estimated to cost £7 million . |