Example sentences of "never lose [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
2 | Shoes were kept on wooden trees , never to lose their shape , or seam across with age . |
3 | DIEGO MARADONA last night bowed to the supreme talent of Paul Gascoigne and urged him never to lose his individuality . |
4 | ‘ Ray told me never to lose my individuality , always to believe in what I did best . |
5 | This box is for the inquiring mind , the person for whom life 's teasing questions never lose their attraction . |
6 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
7 | They never lose their heat — always burny , always burny … |
8 | Never lose your temper . |
9 | A worthwhile person is always clear : she never loses her grasp on what is going on , gets confused , or is at a loss for an explanation , or at the very least a coherent understanding of what is going on . |
10 | This forming and re-forming of pictures never loses its serenity . |
11 | ‘ Are you aware that gold never alters , never loses its shine , even after years beneath the sea , or buried in the ground ? |
12 | Long blonde hair never loses its cachet . |
13 | Luke tells you what to do all the time , but quietly , and he never loses his temper , except if he thinks you 're not toying . |
14 | Even though she had left Stornoway when she was just 14 , she never lost her love for her birthplace or her sweet West Highland accent . |
15 | Though viewed by many as a relic of the 1890s , she never lost her enthusiasm for new artistic trends . |
16 | Nonetheless , as the cassettes of a BBC teach-yourself English course found in her bedroom after the fall indicated , Elena never lost her taste for self-improvement . |
17 | Insolvency , bankruptcy — in passing from one generation to another , the terms never lost their dread significance . |
18 | The classical spirit in which he was trained never lost its hold upon him ; the spirit of the pagan authors he revered in their original languages coexisted in his mind with an Anglicanism more committed in substance than fervent in style ; and as the new novel of the 1950s revived the techniques of eighteenth-century fiction , so did Lewis 's critical prose revive the world of hard-hitting supper-party debates that Boswell records . |
19 | The government of George I and the Whigs never lost its credibility , but retained the support of a substantial proportion of the traditional ruling class and probably a higher proportion of the mass of the population than is usually realised . |
20 | The CUC varied in activity and strength and evolved with various modifications in constitutions and structure , but never lost its independence . |
21 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
22 | He always felt that effective musical criticism began by being well written , and he never lost his liveliness . |
23 | Philippe never lost his childhood orientation and was known to lead his troops into battle in high heels and wearing a perfumed wig . |
24 | He never lost his ability to fire others with a passion for great painting of the past , but he began to weary of the College and was often found with his students , not in the studios , but in the nearby pub , the Hoop and Toy . |
25 | Stephen never lost his temper with her , but with others … |
26 | The children 's abiding memory of their father is his patience and thoroughness : he never lost his temper , and all tasks were thought out and executed with minute attention to detail . |
27 | Corbett told polic that he never lost his temper with the child and never smacked her . |
28 | The painter Vlaminck maintained that Modi never lost his quality of distinction : ‘ I knew Modigliani well . |
29 | Tolkien in other words never lost his belief in the reality and continuity , not only of language and of history , but of human nature and of some intellectual problems . |
30 | Perhaps the classic case of this sort was William Foot Whyte 's study Street Comer Society where he became a quasi-gang member but never lost his status of researcher . |