Example sentences of "[vb -s] lose a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ This place has lost a lot of lustre . ’ |
| 3 | GrandMet has lost a lot of froth since giving two warnings in just a month of less than fizzing profits . |
| 4 | Old Mrs Rogers has lost a lot of her marbles but she 'd surely know if it was someone actually living along there . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | said in the paper today that Michael Barrymore mother is very concerned about him because he 's lost a lot of weight |
| 9 | The only problem with it it 's lost a lot of power . |