Example sentences of "[vb -s] lose a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I CAN sympathise with the businessman who stands to lose a Pounds 30 million contract because BR delays repeatedly made him late for meetings . |
| 2 | She needs to lose a bit of weight but I 'm worried because she 's become very faddy about her food and sometimes refuses to eat anything at all . |
| 3 | The second pitch of Syringe has lost a hold and is now 6a ( same E grade ) . |
| 4 | the absence of any bereavement payment of £3,500 to persons other than a spouse or parent who has lost a child under 18 . |
| 5 | Long John Silver , he is called , and he has lost a leg fighting for his country . |
| 6 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 7 | She feels she has lost a daughter all over again . |
| 8 | A LOYALIST remand prisoner in Ulster has lost a court battle for permission to wear a poppy at a prison remembrance service on Sunday . |
| 9 | Majors , such as Land Securities and MEPC , have been hit severely and unjustly and Brixton Estate , a favourite in Armchair Investor , has lost a quarter of its value since this column recommended investors take profits at the end of August . |
| 10 | Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy . |
| 11 | Almost every family has lost a member : the war penetrates every area of the nation 's life . |
| 12 | If the husband 's shirt has lost a button , he says , ’ Mary , Mary , why is my shirt without a button ’ , to the Black ’ girl ’ not to his wife . |
| 13 | Take the custom of mourning , for instance ; at the funeral itself , and traditionally for a much longer period , a woman who has lost a husband or close relative wears black , and can be thus almost anonymous in appearance . |
| 14 | A Ewe owned by farmer John Davies has lost a lamb during birth and so he 's been put in touch with Mrs Hunter Blair by the farmers union . |
| 15 | It is reported that everyone in the area has lost a relative as a direct result of pollution . |
| 16 | ANYONE WHO HAS LOST a finger in an accident will be painfully aware that the human species is incapable of regrowing lost appendages . |
| 17 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 18 | Every big party this year has lost a leader to some ( usually petty ) scandal . |
| 19 | The Thatcher Government has lost a vote only on rare occasions . |
| 20 | No government in the twentieth century has lost a vote of confidence as a result of dissent by its own supporters — hence the dominance of government . |
| 21 | In Mexico , especially in rural areas , it operates as an important principle of social organisation while , in Chile , it has lost a lot of its formal and obligatory nature and is not very meaningful for many people . |
| 22 | ‘ This place has lost a lot of lustre . ’ |
| 23 | GrandMet has lost a lot of froth since giving two warnings in just a month of less than fizzing profits . |
| 24 | Old Mrs Rogers has lost a lot of her marbles but she 'd surely know if it was someone actually living along there . ’ |
| 25 | By future I mean a couple of seasons from now , the current season although not a write off by any means has lost a lot of meaning the league appears once again to be going to the scum and we 're out of the League cup thingy . |
| 26 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 27 | When the company soccer team refuses to lose a soccer match to a top South Vietnamese side in order to boost their allies ' morale , we learn finally that they are sent to a place called Khe Sahn . |
| 28 | He knows how it feels to lose a father at a tender age . |
| 29 | He 's lost a tooth |
| 30 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |