"It's like having your guts ripped out - it's my livelihood and I feel completely empty and lost, " she said.

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Obviously I lost Barrichello completely off the start.

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"I lost my temper completely, " he told the Slovenian sports daily Ekipa.

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For several heart-stopping seconds I lost sight of her completely.

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It wasn't just that he played badly, but that he completely lost his head, which I've never seen before.

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Not surprisingly, by the time I was done crunching all the numbers, my daughter had completely lost interest in the whole experiment.

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