Example sentences of "[pron] 'd have [art] chance " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question .
2 But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least .
3 This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use .
4 When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . "
5 But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you .
6 ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything .
7 The twins , both 22 , though Kevin is 11 minutes older , pulled no punches in the welterweight bout and Steve tells Associated Press : ‘ If I 'd had the chance , I 'd have knocked him out . ’
8 She was reported as seeing it as a serious matter and thought the fine by the court was not enough : ‘ I 'd have chopped his hand off if I 'd had the chance ’ .
9 I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory .
10 If I 'd had the chance , I would have finished what I 'd begun . ’
11 It was the sort of thing I 'd have done I suppose if I 'd had the chance .
12 ‘ I sure would have , if I 'd had the chance .
13 ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’
14 Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on .
15 She was n't going to risk being thrashed again in conversation , not yet , not until she 'd had a chance to recharge her worn batteries .
16 She 'd had no chance even to tell David that her family would be at OBEX the following day , so it could be as much a shock for him seeing Jennifer as it would be for her sister .
17 If only she 'd had the chance to ask him why he 'd had the affair .
18 And she could have done it again if only she 'd had the chance .
19 Leading the way up to Terry 's room , fervently wishing she 'd left this madhouse when she 'd had the chance , Ellie stood back for Terry to enter first .
20 The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up .
21 Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now …
22 He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’
23 Not once had he tried to take advantage of her and he 'd had the chance .
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