Example sentences of "[vb base] lose [art] " in BNC.

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1 Cooke said : ‘ You hate to lose a game like that , especially when it is so tight and when two decisions go against you in that manner . ’
2 Durability is still a point of concern because most tend to lose a certain amount of loft with extended use .
3 You tend to lose the origins of it , but it 's a shame to let it go altogether .
4 Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter .
5 ‘ You tend to lose the origins of it ’ , was what Anne Smith said about Bellerby Feast , but the observation could apply equally to a number of events whose origins are lost in the ‘ mists of time ’ .
6 He 'd be jolly with the guards , telling them , ‘ It 's OK thanks , I just want to lose a bit of weight , ’ and hold his belly , saying , ‘ Look at all this fat . ’
7 Now I want to lose a few pounds , ’ he says .
8 There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back .
9 Well , we have our own gifts , but the presentation of food is not one of them , and since French cooks and food purveyors so often appear to lose the lightness of their touch in this respect when they leave their native land and settle abroad , one can only conclude that the special stimulant which brings these gifts into flower is in the air of France itself .
10 It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned .
11 It is at times like this when people begin to lose the true principles of religion as they become too involved and so wars begin .
12 Three Valenciennes players have accused the French champions of offering them a 250,000 francs ( £33,000 ) bribe to lose a key game on May 20 , a few days before their European Cup final against AC Milan .
13 As the Republican Guard tightens its grip , the Iraqis stand to lose a lot more than the war
14 But those who stand to lose the most from under-counting want more to be done .
15 But you seem to lose the tan very quickly once you are back at work .
16 It lacks the personal touch it lacks the personal touch which is why you never send your people letters saying you 're fired or you know lost a job you always talk to them and it can be more expensive in terms of materials you use it 's it is very very expensive on mat materials and cheap on time but it 's a personal relationships that 's the first thing okay that 'll do so when do we use it ?
17 ‘ We mun get poor Colin out here in th ’ sunshine — an' we munnot lose no time about it ! ’
18 If you go for the business community in Glenrothes you risk losing the rest of the local market , who may perceive the hotel as too upmarket for them .
19 I he reason you need to watch the rod carefully is not because bites on slugs are hard to see , but because you risk losing the rod if you do not keep your eye on it .
20 Should they become deeply involved in the community , and risk losing the detachment needed in such work ?
21 If you plan to defer your pension , you should also defer any graduated pension to which you may be entitled — or you risk losing the increases you would otherwise obtain .
22 The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference .
23 Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections .
24 Because it ca , most , we do lose a lot of money on carriage forwards .
25 This invaluable extra feature adds little to the overall weight and bulk of the AF-1 , though you do lose the AF-1 's fast-recycling flash and close-up facility .
26 Apart form losing the hypnotics , the end curvature ( what a transport engineer might call a filter road ) can suggest the positive robustness of the earth swelling beyond the frame .
27 Your national side may not have a future themselves by that time if they 've lost every game in between .
28 The result now , after over three months , is that the tanks are stable and I 've lost no more fish .
29 ‘ People who 've lost a Rottweiler often want another adult dog , rather than encourage the puppy market .
30 Every time I go through a lean spell I 've lost a yard ; every time I score a goal it means I 'm over the hepatitis .
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