1. I certainly won't ________ any objection when you make your proposal.

2. The trouble with him is that if you push him too far, he's likely to shout at you and lose his ________ .

3. There's no harm in trying your luck there because after all you have ________ to lose.

4. After he'd wasted all his money, got into debt and then ended up in prison, his family began to regard him as a bit of a lost ________ .

5. First he started shouting and then he began to throw things round the room and it was clear he had just lost his ________ .

6. To be frank I find these philosophical discussions too deep for me and many of the points are lost ________ me.

7. Our views clearly ________ at this point I'm pleased to say.

8. We haven't made any progress this year and are in a sense going backwards and losing ________ .

9. He's one of those people who can't bear being seen to be wrong in fact of losing ________ .

10. It's good that we both have the same way of ________ at things.