Example sentences of "he have lost [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy . |
| 2 | Long John Silver , he is called , and he has lost a leg fighting for his country . |
| 3 | When he thinks he has lost the girl he loves and is left penniless and alone , he decides to sell the picture . |
| 4 | For the moment he has lost the battle inside the government , as he clearly recognises in our interview . |
| 5 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 6 | No person should be permitted to remain senior partner beyond the point when he has lost the confidence of his co-partners . |
| 7 | While his thoughts were on Venus the landscape was rubbed away like chalk from a blackboard and he has lost the means of identifying the newly discovered stars … |
| 8 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 9 | But if Leavis won the battle , he has lost the war ; and quite right too . |
| 10 | William 's grandad had fought a lonely war against the priesthood — and the grandmothers and mothers and aunts who were allied to it-but he 'd lost every battle so far . |
| 11 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 12 | He 'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals . |
| 13 | He 'd lost a lot of relatives in the war . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd lost a lot more , Ruth noted . |
| 15 | He 'd lost a penknife on the beach , Kate said . |
| 16 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 17 | But then he realised he 'd lost the manuscript for a biography he 's writing on the nineteenth century painter James Whistler . |
| 18 | He knew he should have fired when he had the chance ; by leaving it too late , he 'd lost the advantage . |
| 19 | Although he knew very well he 'd lost the battle , he still felt a need to justify . |
| 20 | Again , that 's fine , but the member had no idea as to exactly why he 'd lost the appeal . |
| 21 | Suddenly he 'd lost the taste for it . |
| 22 | He 'd lost the leather jacket and the boots but maybe he slept in the trousers . |
| 23 | What 's more , I knew people like a one-armed inside half — he 'd lost an arm in the First World War — who played with murderous brilliance for Caernarvon for years when I was a boy . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | He had lost a bit of weight after the race at York but now seemed stronger , harder . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 30 | However , the trailer 's loss was not merely nominal because he had lost a sale . |