Example sentences of "lose their [noun pl] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | With companies in Hereford shedding staff in the recession , the outlook for those who lose their jobs at the RAF base is bleak . |
2 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
3 | Hundreds of clergy and laity , both Roman Catholic and Protestant , lost their lives in the Germany of the Third Reich . |
4 | D N A testing is to be used to provide positive identification of the Britons who lost their lives in the Waco cult siege . |
5 | Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold . |
6 | Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant . |
7 | In the past year a hundred and fifty people have lost their jobs at the Newport Pagnell site . |
8 | Prime Minister Atef Sidki said on Oct. 31 that all who had lost their homes in the Cairo earthquake [ see pp. 39167-68 ] would be rehoused by the end of November . |