Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] lose " in BNC.
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| 1 | really odd dream once yeah I dreamt , I dreamt this tube of , tube of toothpaste was trying to get me and every time it hit me I lost |
| 2 | The year after I joined , I attended the party and drank several pints of a mixture of lager and gin , after which I lost consciousness in the changing rooms ; I woke up to find myself being hit , kicked and pushed down the stairs . |
| 3 | I also made the point of linking the ideas of wilderness and beauty , which you lose if the place is covered in telephones and railways . |
| 4 | Because there was a lot I admired about the channel which you lose at your peril . |
| 5 | For she had learnt during many years of marriage that faking a knock-out early on saved you 12 punishing rounds which you lost on points . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean the car crash twenty years ago in which you lost the use of your legs and Willy Morpurgo the use of his brain . ’ |
| 7 | In Britain 's case it also remains true that she has to make up in sales to the world outside the EEC that which she loses by running a heavy deficit with the Community . |
| 8 | She gained some 25lb ( 11kg ) in weight during pregnancy , half of which she lost whilst breast-feeding for six months . |
| 9 | On this depressing thought they both went upstairs , and after another fight , which she lost , Kate was left alone in the big bedroom . |
| 10 | In the Miss LA contest that followed which she lost Michelle met a commercial agent and began auditioning for adverts , which again she hated , but again swallowed her pride . |
| 11 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 12 | Only by making these changes can we regain the ground which we lost during the recession in our core geographic market , Scotland . |
| 13 | Now beer costs between 82p and £1 ‘ mother 's milk ’ they say ; there 's a notice forbidding the movement of easy chairs ( ‘ by order of the committee ’ ) and a couple of football club letter draws , which we lost . |
| 14 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 15 | Divorced and separated women often complain of the speed with which they lose contact with their married friends . |
| 16 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 17 | The truth was that the Conservative party under Baldwin had managed to recover a large area of that middle ground in politics which is the key to electoral success and which they lost in 1206 , after being in possession for nearly twenty years before that . |
| 18 | But Tories regained two seats from the Liberal Democrats , Southport and Ribble Valley , which they lost in a by-election last year . |
| 19 | Either offside or obstruction , or both , could have been awarded against Wasps as they scrambled after the ball as the final line-out , which they lost , broke up . |
| 20 | When Leeds City arrived for their meeting with the Gunners ( which they lost 1–0 ) , on 6 December , 1913 , the Highbury ground was still only half-finished and a wooden stand on the east side , designed for 9,000 spectators , was still being built . |
| 21 | Colchester switched to a two-setter system , but it was too late to save the set which they lost 15–12 . |
| 22 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 23 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 24 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 25 | The plaintiffs owned property in Egypt which they lost at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 . |
| 26 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 27 | Their confidence shattered , Darlington batsmen turned in another dismal display at home to Hartlepool in a game which they lost by seven wickets . |
| 28 | England got the all-important shot that took them through to the final which they lost 19-8 to Ireland . |
| 29 | He had returned from a sojourn in New York to aid his oppressed people in the Spanish civil war , in which he lost his life just over one year after Leonard was born . |
| 30 | In this stubborn bent towards the hopefully open-ended ( which he lost before the end ) , Pound may legitimately seem to us more indelibly American than his fellow expatriate , Eliot . |