Example sentences of "[verb] lose [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie 's over-protection rapidly becomes a blind obsession until he has lost sight of the fact that he really wants to make Catherine happy . |
| 2 | But now Mr de Klerk has lost control of the South African Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 3 | He has lost count of the number of operations he had , probably around a dozen , but thankfully his spine was virtually undamaged . |
| 4 | He has lost count of the clubs he has helped , buying their entire ticket alloca-tion . |
| 5 | Under the same circumstances , she 'd have worked a lot harder to please a man , and she 'd lost sight of the fact that Kattina was an important lead in her assignment . |
| 6 | But he 'd lost sight of the figure . |
| 7 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 8 | She 'd lost count of the number of people who 'd asked her that ; lost count of the number of answers she 'd given . |
| 9 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 10 | But as time goes on , people seem to lose sight of the reason why it is necessary to issue licences to these people and certificates of airworthiness for aircraft , etc. , etc . |
| 11 | Strictures such as those by Bowen and by Andrews and Miller are very necessary if physical geography is to avoid losing sight of the historical dimension and the links with process and systems studies ( see chapter 8 , p. 161 ) . |
| 12 | To avoid losing control of the analysis process it was necessary to list the activities in tabular form as well as show them diagrammatically ( Fig 11.7 ) . |
| 13 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 14 | But he was starting to lose track of the things that had made him what he was as well . |
| 15 | Brian Faulkner , having lost control of the Unionist Party , had formed the new Unionist Party of Northern Ireland which could only field two candidates and won less than three per cent of the poll . |
| 16 | Having lost control of the Moscow city soviet the Moscow CPSU committee on April 15 terminated the arrangement whereby it published jointly with the city soviet the newspapers Moskovskaya Pravda and Vechernaya Moskva . |
| 17 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 18 | The court heard that Mr White may have lost control of the motorbike because of his guilt over the accident that killed his friend . |
| 19 | You must have lost count of the number of men who have seen your charms . ’ |
| 20 | They must not be allowed to lose sight of the prime message . |
| 21 | The police risk losing control of the streets to lager louts , vandals and drug dealers , the Police Federation conference was warned . |
| 22 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 23 | v. Perry , 1987 F.L.R. 237 that the court seems to have lost sight of the distinction . |
| 24 | This act is a betrayal to Leeds United supporters everywhere — you seem to have lost sight of the fact that its us supporters who breathe life into Leeds United . |
| 25 | It was an order totally alien to the most basic principles of the religion they were fighting to uphold , and showed that after 40 years of the struggle , some of those fighting under the flag of the Covenant had lost sight of the most important aspects of their Faith . |
| 26 | By now she had lost sight of the dress bag . |
| 27 | But we learned that after we had lost sight of the taxi , it had gone to Waterloo station , where the man had caught his train . |
| 28 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Henry had lost count of the number of times Beamish began a sentence with the words ‘ I notice … ’ or ‘ I observe … ’ |