lose the thread

Plus she'd lost the thread of what she was going to say.

She lost the thread of the conversation after a time.

But just like that he had lost the thread of the conversation.

He had long since lost the thread of the broadcast.

And then his mind lost the thread of its consciousness.

But I seem to have lost the thread of my discourse.

In trying to work it out, he lost the threads of his song.

But she seemed to have lost the thread of mental contact.

She began losing the thread, having to shake her head and start over.

I had lost the thread of this conversation fairly early on.

After three sentences I have lost the thread of the argument.

He seemed to lose the thread, then visibly pulled himself together.

But by move 50 he seemed to have lost the thread of the game completely and his position was considerably worse.

I really had lost the thread of the story.

I kept losing the thread but it didn't seem to matter.

"In that case, I've lost the thread of the conversation."

Sometimes her beauty so took him by surprise, that he lost the thread of speech.

Now, though, he seemed to have lost the thread of what he was saying.

"I never lost the thread of my life, the narrative," he said.

He lost the thread of her swoon and entered his own.

He was a little disconcerted and lost the thread of his argument.

She had lost the thread of the conversation they had been having.

For a moment, he thought he had lost the thread of the conversation.

Yet he does this without boring us or losing the thread of his narrative.

He hesitated, lost the thread, repeated himself and in general made a mess of the whole thing.