Sentence examples for been lost down from inspiring English sources

It is not just a work of art of the highest order but a poignant symbol of just what marvels have been lost down the centuries.

By the time it turned up Turpin had forgotten all about it but managed to find an old microfilm player and was astonished to find the huge series, which adds greatly to the cache of Whitman's known work, much of which has been lost down the years, buried in old newspapers thought too parochial to be digitised.

I've often feared that the things that defined me before I became a caregiver – work, creative interests and a social life – have been lost down a well of grief and exhaustion.

While his leadership could be undermined if the anti-terror legislation vote is lost, Downing Street was buoyed last night by a poll that showed widespread public support for the move.

When the answer to America's debt problems is something that could be lost down the back of a sofa, it's no answer at all.

Admittedly he does now resemble a boiled sweet that was lost down the back of the sofa only to be unearthed months later, fuzzy and misshapen.

For most of us, a passport is little more than an embossed identity card to be lost down the side of filing cabinets and searched for wildly the night before a holiday.

By the song's end she's lost down some sort of wormhole: "I see a light coming towards me, moving slowly but coming quickly at the same time.

The plasma moves radially outward and eventually is lost down the tail.

14 Dec: Ninnis, the six best dogs, almost all of the food and the bulk of their most important equipment - including their tent - are lost down a crevasse 11ft wide and 150ft deep.

They were also losing dogs; one broke his leg and was shot, another fell ill, and a third was lost down a crevasse.