Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have lose [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Spitting Image creator Roger Law joked : ‘ I think I may have lost my OBE over this . ’
2 ‘ Sorry , I must have lost my place in the script .
3 I thought I might have lost my job , but I was n't sure .
4 I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands .
5 I could have lost my life … ’ and the indignation was rich again in the Major 's voice .
6 ‘ It would have been another 17 or 18 years before we could have had this vote again and I would have lost my chance . ’
7 But Heller himself signed , like most people , ‘ because otherwise I would have lost my job , ’ he recalls frankly .
8 After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’
9 ‘ I think you must have lost your mind . ’
10 ‘ That you should have lost your wife .
11 She 'll have lost her ticket
12 If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine .
13 If you are low in stamina you will have lost your ability to get through the day without becoming over-tired .
14 I doubt we 'll have lost our man on Moncrieffe Hill . ’
15 ‘ Last season in a similar sort of game , we might have lost our shape and the game .
16 At 96 we would have lost our deposit .
17 But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie .
18 ‘ I think they would have lost our trail in last night 's snowstorm .
19 He may have lost his life but he saved somebody else .
20 And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point .
21 The King could have ridden further inland , but he would have lost his way on the wild , grassy moorland which conceals marsh and bog to trap the unwary traveller .
22 Tiredly , Busacher realized he would have to lose his temper .
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