Example sentences of "loses his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But what if he loses his temper — threatens 'er with that knife , even knocks 'er about ? |
| 2 | Luke tells you what to do all the time , but quietly , and he never loses his temper , except if he thinks you 're not toying . |
| 3 | If you have a bad game he 'll leave you in no doubt about what he thinks , but he very rarely loses his temper . |
| 4 | Asked whether the ice-cool Borg was angry at Loredana 's claim he replied : ‘ Bjorn very seldom loses his temper . |
| 5 | When he loses his temper |
| 6 | Jimmy Jessop , the glaciation expert , who is a skilled pickpocket , undoes the back buttons of Neil 's braces as they lean over a diagram together , until Neil loses his temper , and chases Jimmy round the office , shouting that he is going to bloody kill him . |
| 7 | But he just loses his temper and refuses to come , so now I dare n't mention it . |
| 8 | When she insists on pursuing the case against the onlookers , her boss first ridicules her , then revealingly loses his temper , telling her she 's finished — win or lose . |
| 9 | He does believe they were powerful leaders and that to some extent the Bible erm shows a true like for example Freud says that there are some in the like Moses ' temper , and he loses his temper , he murders an Egyptian Freud . |
| 10 | He comes home late night , one Saturday night , having been working long hours , not having enough sleep , she nags him and Madam he loses his temper with her and Madam , I am sure that you and I in our relationships same sort of stress in a different situation where , where we 've been nagged by our partners and lost our temper and pushed them about , or whatever , and we 'd be very surprised I think to find ourselves in , in my client 's situation had that happened , because what , what happened here Madam was that erm the girlfriend suffered some minor injuries , nothing to worry about really . |
| 11 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 12 | After two years of bingeing up Baldwin and bringing Neville along to find that even Neville loses his head , and sells the pass in the first fortnight of serious crisis . ’ |
| 13 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |
| 14 | Broadly speaking , a man 's experience of grief when he loses his life-partner is similar to a woman 's ; but there are one or two important differences worth bearing in mind if you are caring for an elderly parent who has become a widower . |
| 15 | I 'm devastated … a man who suffered brain damage loses his fight for compensation . |
| 16 | Suppose , say , that A , who is registered and is entitled to be registered , loses his certificate , obtains a duplicate from the company and transfers to B who is registered by the company . |
| 17 | If he sustains one or more wounds from flames then he loses his ability to regenerate , and he wo n't even be able to regenerate wounds inflicted by ordinary weapons . |
| 18 | Mowat goes mad , loses his cap . |
| 19 | Error-prone Lyle loses his way |
| 20 | A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 1 ) The unpaid seller of goods loses his lien or right of retention in respect of them ( a ) when he delivers the goods to a carrier or other bailee or custodier for the purpose of transmission to the buyer without reserving the right of disposal of the goods ; ( b ) when the buyer or his agent lawfully obtains possession of the goods , ( c ) by waiver of the lien or right of retention . ’ |
| 22 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 23 | It 's got a bad reputation , we associate it with old age , the truth is , man loses his hair because he 's got too much male testosterone and he loses it because he 's got a sex drive like a rampant rhino . |
| 24 | Mozart wrote the part of Ramiro for a castrato , perhaps expecting greater power than Katherine Steffan conveyed , at least until the final aria when this previously rational character loses his cool . |
| 25 | GUIL loses his cool . ) |
| 26 | Bart ( anagram : Brat ) , a kid with a spiky flat-top , is perpetually in trouble : he enjoys taking snapshots of his own butt , and loses his dad 's job for him . |
| 27 | It is no matter to him that he loses his hold over his children and his erstwhile fiancée . |
| 28 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 29 | ‘ Whoever finds his life will lose it , and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it . ’ |
| 30 | And who ever loses his life for my sake , will find it . |