Example sentences of "lost [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was the people who continued to embody what English agents called ‘ enthusiasm ’ , the xenophobic church and king patriotism which never lost its terrors for the men of property . |
| 2 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 3 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 4 | The majority of those who were working lost their jobs for the reasons already detailed above . |
| 5 | As he grew up , he lost his appetite for the game and , natural enough in a teenager , he questioned his motives and direction , and was lost to the scheme . |
| 6 | Indeed , he had , in fact , smashed one of their violins when he lost his temper for the same reason in the previous year . |