Example sentences of "[verb] have [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are anxious that everyone who wants to come has the chance . |
| 2 | But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters . |
| 3 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 4 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 5 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 6 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 7 | Now that the dust has had a chance to settle , certain incontrovertible facts about the way in which Retin-A works need to be taken on board by anyone considering using the product . |
| 8 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
| 9 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
| 10 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 11 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
| 12 | The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . |
| 13 | So you all positively want to have the chance to be interviewed on radio and to put over what you think is important . |
| 14 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 15 | But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 19 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 20 | He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 22 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Not once had he tried to take advantage of her and he 'd had the chance . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | 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 . |