Example sentences of "that [pers pn] lose [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's when people are opinionated , as opposed to having a properly argued opinion that I lose patience with them . |
| 2 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 3 | She 'd be sluicing her face down with cold water , I assumed , vowing never again to drink so much that she lost control of herself in such an embarrassing , such an appallingly dangerous and potentially disastrous way . |
| 4 | It is also essential never to get so hungry that you lose control . |
| 5 | But there 's also the problem that you lose respect if they allow you to get away with too much . ’ |
| 6 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 7 | Enthusiasm is closely linked with interest , for it is only when things cease to interest us that we lose enthusiasm . |
| 8 | But , like observers of cricket , we must not become so engrossed in our analysis of the statistics of the game that we lose sight of the fundamental issues of strategy . |
| 9 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 10 | But the style is sometimes so impressionistic that we lose track of which island we are on , and to whom we are talking . |
| 11 | This is an illustration of the well-known problem of computer scientists becoming so enthralled with their own inventions that they lose sight of the needs of users . |
| 12 | The day that ZZAP ! stops moving people around is the day that they lose sight of supplying Customer Satisfaction . |
| 13 | Their small size means that they lose heat more rapidly than the adults . |
| 14 | Bouvard and Pécuchet , during their investigations into literature , find that they lose respect for an author when he strays into error . |
| 15 | They actually er attack the gills er surfaces of the fish so that they lose body salt . |
| 16 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 17 | It is typical of the Labour party that it loses sight of the possibility of being able to get better value for money and of being able to improve the extent to which and the way in which we can help people without always asking the taxpayer to fund more . |
| 18 | That and the fact that it lost faith in the nearest thing to a charismatic it had had since Rose Fox . |
| 19 | One major American corporation became so enthralled by the spell of its spreadsheet model that it lost touch with reality and some $80M disappeared ! |
| 20 | The compensation demanded would cover claims by Virgin that it lost revenue from passengers ‘ poached ’ by BA after gaining access to its computer records . |
| 21 | Any contestant who , in the referee 's opinion , becomes so over-excited that he loses self control may be disqualified from the entire tournament . |
| 22 | Sometimes it is tempting for an engineer to become so preoccupied with his own problems in an investigation , particularly if he needs to delve deeply into one particular feature or component that has failed , that he loses sight of the ultimate objective — to establish the cause of the accident . |
| 23 | In most cases , the buyer thus prefers to include such a right expressly , which he can then invoke at his discretion in situations where the defects in the initial delivery of goods are so severe that he loses confidence in the ability of the seller to perform properly under the contract at all . |
| 24 | Kimberley and Killion made mock-attacks while Lambert dived through the intense machine-gun fire and a screen of flak so dense that he lost sight of his target . |
| 25 | He became so bored by family life ( Tamara had given him a daughter and Yolande a son and a daughter ) that he lost interest in his children . |
| 26 | Harris had said that the reason he killed Faye Whitehead was that he lost control and he has been questioned about his state of mind in the days before the incident . |