Example sentences of "[vb base] lose " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 2 | They have to come to terms with the fact that there is a rival in the camp , a rival they would both love to remove but hate to lose because of his separate contributions to home life . |
| 3 | ‘ I hate to lose you , but we 'll meet again soon , ’ she said . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Cos you just lose lose concentration . |
| 6 | Durability is still a point of concern because most tend to lose a certain amount of loft with extended use . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , although surrounded by water , dolphins , like other marine mammals , tend to lose water from their bodies to the sea . |
| 8 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 9 | Any transgression or hidden resistance in films by women directors is , it is argued , in the end always contained by the characteristic movement of narrative closure in Hollywood films made during the studio period , in which women tend to lose out or are victimised . |
| 10 | If you do n't , if you throw it into articles without laying the ground first , you tend to lose your readers . |
| 11 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 12 | You tend to lose the origins of it , but it 's a shame to let it go altogether . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 16 | Little hand cutters are OK , I tend to lose my temper with them , but pro-type jigs will give a much neater result . |
| 17 | Most are woven on woollen warps and wefts ( p.20 ) — not the most stable of foundation materials — and consequently tend to lose their shape . |
| 18 | Because day length controls this process , trees in cities illuminated by street lights tend to lose their leaves later than their rural relatives . |
| 19 | Little hand cutters are OK , I tend to lose my temper with them , but pro-type jigs will give a much neater result . |
| 20 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 21 | Fairly strict diet and periods cos women tend to lose iron and certainly women who are actively dieting can actually become iron deficient . |
| 22 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 23 | 95% Political — perhaps necessary for subject , but tend to lose vision of whom we serve |
| 24 | Would you say that managers tend to lose sight of labour relations and concentrate on the market ? |
| 25 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 26 | But the staff at Westonbirt say lose one claim to fame , gain another . |
| 27 | The others want to lose control , lose their selves , in noise . |
| 28 | If you have never dieted before and want to lose weight |
| 29 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 30 | In observing the behaviour of the slimmer and the anorexic , we may read the same text , ‘ I want to lose weight . ’ |