1.   Air traffic control had lost radio contact with the pilot.

2.   Divorced and separated women often complain of the speed with which they lose contact with their Married friends.

3.   Suddenly the yacht changed course for Margate and at this point Venturous lost radio contact with the shore unit.

4.   The flight crew reported smoke in the cockpit and cabin before the tower lost contact.

5.   He lost contact with his extended family.

6.   I hardly need to say that I have never lost contact with him.

7.   Mother and son lost contact when Nicholas was in his early twenties.

8.   Controllers in Strasbourg said that they had lost radio contact with the airliner without warning and that no distress signals had been released.

9.   A group which is raising money for an operation on a Bosnian girl has lost contact with her family.

10.   An American communications conglomerate loses contact with an expedition sent to the Congo to look for huge diamonds needed for a new laser technology.