Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes later , at the other end , Roy Gordon failed to accept a chance in front of an open goal . |
| 2 | That is , if you want to stand a chance of stopping before hitting it . |
| 3 | The Southampton striker was expected to reject the chance to stay with the First Division strugglers . |
| 4 | So you all positively want to have the chance to be interviewed on radio and to put over what you think is important . |
| 5 | The head has to take the chance and to trust that an opportunity will in the end turn out to have been well handled . |
| 6 | In some cases ( for instance distress sales by receivers , in situations of insolvency ) both parties may know there is a doubt as to title but want to take the chance anyway . |
| 7 | Mechanisms could easily be incorporated to reduce the chance of name and ethnicity determining the likelihood of being shortlisted , as well as to monitor discrimination . |
| 8 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 9 | Are you going to sacrifice the chance to help Chester 's on the altar of your pride and independence , Virginia ? ’ |
| 10 | That got home to him He certainly was n't going to miss the chance of making a few bob out of someone with money to spend . |
| 11 | Teachers must be prepared not only to defend their subject but positively to advance its cause in a hostile climate if history is going to stand a chance of surviving . |
| 12 | This was the crunch match they really had to win to stand a chance of staying up . |
| 13 | It was decided to recall Blake to London in a manner that would not arouse his suspicions so a message was sent to Nicholas Elliott , chief of MI6 in Beirut , who got in touch with Blake and said that London would like to discuss a chance of promotion and a new job with him . |
| 14 | She disliked travelling by road and was going to seize the chance to have the flat re-carpeted . |
| 15 | It was , though , and you 're going to have to learn to live with that fact , because you 're certainly not going to get a chance to put it right ! ’ |
| 16 | Luke Calder was n't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future . |
| 17 | I felt that this was a very brief phase and if I did n't cash in on it now , I was n't going to get the chance again . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , she 's not going to get the chance , ’ said Constance . |
| 19 | And now you 're not even going to get the chance to stay overnight . ’ |
| 20 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 21 | I do n't believe that I am really going to have the chance to be in this movie . |
| 22 | In the past the temptation to gallop across the hallowed Cowdray turf , which so many of them were not going to have the chance to play on , had been too much for the teams . |
| 23 | And the policeman wanted to check his facts before deciding to take a chance on a long shot . |
| 24 | Would you would you like to take the chance ? |
| 25 | Sometimes you 've just got to take a chance and dive in . ’ |
| 26 | Oh I 've got to take a chance on it . |
| 27 | I know but in April you 've got to take a chance . |
| 28 | Montana said : ‘ Steve and the team are playing well so they are not going to take a chance of throwing me in unless they have to . ’ |
| 29 | I was giggling there 's a big fat boy was going to take a chance with this toffee bar , you know , super Sandra ! |
| 30 | All you have to do to stand a chance of winning is answer the following questions correctly : |