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‘A person may lose a battle.’

[⟨det person.nlose.v ⟨det battle.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s when there is no expectation of living for others that I lose the mental battle.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

To make a long story short, I lost the battle.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Last Saturday, I went to the wake of my supervisor’s wife, who lost the battle for about a year against cancer.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Every 90 minutes a person in this county is diagnosed with ALS and every 90 minutes another person will lose their battle against this disease.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When my snot has yellow strands, I am losing the battle and schedule an appointment with my allergist.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Of course, I lost the battle.
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In the British National Corpus:

He said the group no longer made sense without its flamboyant lead singer Freddie Mercury, who lost his battle with Aids last year.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Sometimes you lose the battle.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

For the past 2 days I feel like I am losing the battle and not the weight.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’ve been fighting my throat for a few months now, and just when I thought it was getting better, it seems I am losing the battle again.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I faced the? battles in the past? with trusting the wrong people I fully lost that battle but in the end God opened my heart and I won a relationship with God that no one can ever take away.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I finally lost the battle and went into foreclosure.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I think I’m losing that battle.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Last Saturday, I went to the wake of my supervisor’s wife, who lost the battle for about a year against cancer.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

… since Wright lost his battle with cancer Monday night.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I think I should just give up I don’t know what to do or how to feel anymore im so hurt and im so confused am I living in fear? fear that he might leave my side one day… because he was by my side too often and fear that all I’ve done to prove myself worthy to him, may be all for nothing fear that I have to watch my grandma deteriorate and fear that there’s nothing I can do to save her and fear that she’ll be gone in a matter of what could be a few weeks fear of growing up and going to college and fear of not becoming successful.. not ding what I really was meant to do and fear of ending up alone because of my lack of experience. my cynical nature. my shallowness. I want to be happy and I want him to be happy and I… I just want her to live. if everything in this world eventually perishes.. then why live? if you fight and fight and fight and you still lose the battle, was the fight even worth it?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I just lost the battle for Paul Scholes, because e – bay kicked me out.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

so why has my life unfolded this way? because this is who I am, and it’s what I deserve. the filth, the bleakness, this overwhelming agoraphobia. it’s not real, it’s just an echo of what is inside me. there is only a desert, a fantasy. I could make anything I wanted, but it’s results are betrayed by it’s purpose; that it’s only there to hide the fact that something is not. with this awareness, I just don’t enjoy anything anymore, I’d be kidding myself, and even if I bothered, the secrets would still be around, waiting to be found out. I hate being like this. so I stopped, it lasts for a little while, but then the thoughts creep in, “I’m still the same, I’m just running from it. “I don’t get to be happy, I don’t get to be a good person, I’m just holding off the inevitable. but even when I give in, it never seems to transcend. fate doesn’t want a willing victim, it wants me to fight, because otherwise, I wouldn’t be losing the battle. and that’s what I’m meant to do, regardless of how I feel about it. I can *n’t make myself better, I’d just recreate the same circumstances that brought me here. I can *n’t accept what I have, because it just fools others into thing I wanted this, and I will only receive more of the same.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Why We Need Your Help Every 90 minutes a person in this country is diagnosed with ALS and every 90 minutes another person will lose their battle against this disease.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.