Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty to one outsider , and I thought oh well , I do n't stand a chance on it . |
| 2 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be sorry to leave , but I know that whatever I did today I do n't have a chance of playing at Charlton on Saturday , or the week after . ’ |
| 4 | Next day the place is flooded so I do n't get a chance to play with Trevino , just stand on the practice ground and watch him hit balls . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to finish getting my Nature collection while we 're here , look you , in case I do n't get a chance again , ’ Jill confided to Jennifer , her Sixer . |
| 6 | I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else . |
| 7 | I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else . |
| 8 | Well I said , If I do n't buy , I do n't get a chance of selling . |
| 9 | Oh I do n't get a chance . |
| 10 | It was made clear to me by my mother , sometimes backed up by my sisters , that as far as the opposite sex was concerned , I did n't stand a chance . |
| 11 | I did n't stand a chance . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't stand a chance ! |
| 13 | I did n't stand a chance — he ran right out in front of me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We get sick of hearing the excuse ‘ I did n't stand a chance ’ , I always think the kid definitely did n't have one and that makes me angry . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't have a chance to get a briefing from Graeme but I did n't get one when I took over from Kenny Dalglish . |
| 16 | I did n't have a chance to succeed |
| 17 | ‘ His fists were flying so fast , I did n't have a chance to tell him I have Aids . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't have a chance to prove that I 'm somebody as well , that I 'm not nothing . |
| 19 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 20 | But when I got back I did n't have a chance to tell them anything . |
| 21 | If I 'm not teaching I 'm marking in th to actually get a lecture through cos I was given this with about a weeks ' notice you see , so I did n't have a chance to prepare the stuff for this course other than as we go along Right ? |
| 22 | I did n't have a chance to put these out on a dish either . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't get a chance , ’ he said , rather lamely . |
| 24 | Now the other person in the department , I did n't get a chance to show it to him . |
| 25 | Oh , no , I did n't get , no I did n't get a chance , no . |
| 26 | Well I had n't got a chance to . |
| 27 | The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case . |
| 28 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 29 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 30 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |