Example sentences of "they have lost [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 2 | Cos we used to swear like hell if they 'd lost a door |
| 3 | Somewhere along the way , they 'd lost the Daimler . |
| 4 | ‘ That they 've lost a feeder . |
| 5 | They 've lost a fortune — Ferraris , Bugattis , Maseratis , Nissan Bluebirds . |
| 6 | But I still do n't know why Scano 's boy risked going to the villa unless they 've lost a guard too , which would really put them in difficulty . |
| 7 | I think they look after them when they 've lost a lot of weight , you know . |
| 8 | er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings . |
| 9 | It 's like they 've lost a bodyguard . ’ |
| 10 | Your national side may not have a future themselves by that time if they 've lost every game in between . |
| 11 | A spokesman said while they accept they 've lost the copyright battle , they still intend to go to court again in an attempt to get the damages reduced . |
| 12 | The German defenders had pulled out and , from their new positions , they had lost no time in setting up their mortars . |
| 13 | They had lost no time . |
| 14 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 15 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the meantime they had lost a Sea Fury . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I heard of people with only one kidney and enquired eagerly whether they had lost the other through cancer . |
| 20 | She says if they had lost the case it would have opened the flood gates fort many more people to claim gypsy status and demand sites from the council . |
| 21 | Largely as a result , they had lost the ability to construct complex and resonant narratives . |
| 22 | It was even more important to do this quickly , because they had no food and they had lost the horses . |
| 23 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 24 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 25 | There were cormorants , black , long-necked diving birds like those that fly low along Brazilian rivers , but here in the Galapagos , their wings were so small and with such stunted feathers that they had lost the power of flight . |
| 26 | The Spartans subsequently felt guilt at having started the war : there is a revealing sentence in Thucydides ( vii.18 ) which says that they came to think they had lost the war of 431–421 because ‘ they themselves had sinned ’ when the Thebans attacked Plataia when the ‘ libations ’ were still in force . |
| 27 | Some people feel they have lost a space of time and , like other members of the panel , I would be cautious in the use of sedatives in this situation . |
| 28 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 29 | They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine , which they say threatens 1.9m people . |
| 30 | These people are not ‘ different ’ — they are the same as you and I , except that they have lost the ability to use their legs and have to rely on a wheelchair to get about . |