Example sentences of "lose [pron] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not uncommon for a couple who have had the sadness of producing a heavily disabled or diseased baby to find that they later lose their desire for intercourse . |
| 2 | I 'm devastated … a man who suffered brain damage loses his fight for compensation . |
| 3 | More importantly , however , David Agnew , the collector of Wigtown , McCulloch of Torhouse , the controller of customs , Gordon of Drumbeg , the surveyor , and a tide waiter named McKeen , were also councillors , and all of them were in some danger of losing their posts for incompetence if nothing worse . |
| 4 | As Kontrax lost its fight for survival , it emerged that another Hungarian computing giant , Controll Rt , has also hit serious financial difficulties . |
| 5 | CANCER heroine Louise Woolcock , 21 , who captured the heart of Princess Diana , lost her battle for life yesterday . |
| 6 | THE father of human torch victim Suzanne Capper spoke of his grief yesterday after she lost her fight for life . |
| 7 | THE sister of fire death girl Natalie Godfrey lost her fight for life early yesterday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The soldiers happily carried out their orders and , having lost their fruit , the inhabitants soon lost their desire for rebellion . |
| 10 | And they lost their courage for life |
| 11 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 12 | THE MID-POINT between No Name and Unforgiven finds Eastwood as a Confederate raider redeemed after the war as he is assimilated into a rag-tag community of rejects and losers , slowly losing his appetite for violence and vengeance . |
| 13 | Lorry driver David Hampton , 24 , collapsed in a club on a night out and lost his fight for life in hospital 24 hours later . |
| 14 | A DARLINGTON man lost his fight for life five days after his wife died suddenly in hospital . |
| 15 | BRAVE Liam Hamer yesterday lost his battle for life just five days after receiving a new liver . |
| 16 | In the early stages of her marriage she kept her maiden name but when this caused a few rumblings in Arkansas and Clinton lost his bid for re-election as governor in 1980 , she took his name and he was returned to office two years later . |
| 17 | And here at home I mean to stay , for I 've lost my taste for travelling , after that mêlée , I can tell you . ’ |
| 18 | Scotland 's last remaining independent whisky firm , Invergorden , has lost its battle for survival . |
| 19 | But they 'll only be able to do that when she 's hungry and she 's lost her appetite for freedom . |
| 20 | A nurse , who claims her life has been ruined after her knee-cap was shattered in a fall at a superstore , has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 21 | A solicitor who became paralysed after a routine jaw operation has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid she has lost her ear for baby-talk , though . |
| 23 | Mrs Roggson , by contrast , although a widow of only sixty , seemed to have lost her energy for life . |
| 24 | Stepps played with great courage throughout but they appear to have lost their fight for survival in the division . |
| 25 | And Tony Dorigo and Brian Deane have lost their race for fitness for England 's assignment . |
| 26 | A retired couple whose home has been blighted by a by-pass scheme have lost their battle for compensation . |
| 27 | A retired couple who claim their home has been blighted by plans to build a by-pass have lost their battle for compensation . |
| 28 | They are the more detestable for having temporarily lost their reason for existence : that is to say , shops full of a disastrous religious trinketry no longer have any customers to sell it to , and whole street-fuls of hotels and pensions are all of them closed until the following spring , making parts of the town seem gloomily abandoned . |
| 29 | Mike has never lost his appetite for football , although his Huddersfield experience left him disillusioned . |
| 30 | A man severely brain damaged in an operation more than twenty-five years ago , has lost his fight for compensation . |