Example sentences of "[pers pn] had lost a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 2 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 3 | I had lost a father , ‘ someone to watch over me ’ who had done his best to do so , though he had failed . |
| 4 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 5 | Erm , well my particular case was cut and dry , no medical miracles , as I say , could help me because I had lost a baby at six months during the labour and erm in order to save to my life I had a hysterectomy so there was no possibility of I V F , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 6 | Hari felt cold panic wash over her , she had done the unforgivable , she had lost a customer 's boots . |
| 7 | She had lost a stone and was too weak to whimper when rescued . |
| 8 | Gently , I said I wondered whether she had lost a child , whether that was why she was so unhappy . |
| 9 | From there she would stare hour after hour through the branches of the trees above as they swayed against the ever-changing sky , as if she was waiting to catch a glimpse of something precious she had lost a lifetime before . |
| 10 | ‘ She had lost a lot of blood and was in a state of shock lying on the footpath at the end of an alleyway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 13 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the meantime they had lost a Sea Fury . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | He had lost a bit of weight after the race at York but now seemed stronger , harder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 22 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 23 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 24 | However , the trailer 's loss was not merely nominal because he had lost a sale . |
| 25 | 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 . |