Example sentences of "[verb] have the chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are anxious that everyone who wants to come has the chance . |
| 2 | So you all positively want to have the chance to be interviewed on radio and to put over what you think is important . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Not once had he tried to take advantage of her and he 'd had the chance . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If I 'd had the chance , I would have finished what I 'd begun . ’ |
| 9 | If only she 'd had the chance to ask him why he 'd had the affair . |
| 10 | It was the sort of thing I 'd have done I suppose if I 'd had the chance . |
| 11 | And she could have done it again if only she 'd had the chance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I sure would have , if I 'd had the chance . |
| 14 | I do n't believe that I am really going to have the chance to be in this movie . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll have seen parts of the world we would never have had the chance to visit otherwise , and we 'll have been a lot luckier than most . ’ |
| 18 | If the test case had been successful , 200,000 motorists guilty of failing to supply samples would have had the chance to appeal . |
| 19 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side . |
| 21 | ( They will not have had the chance to mate with males from their own stock culture . ) |
| 22 | If there were anything to remove , he best of all must have had the chance to do it . |
| 23 | If you do n't ever go there , you wo n't have had the chance of sampling their hot mussels . |
| 24 | Had he not done so , another hon. Member would have obliged , and we would have had the chance to debate the matter and to make the points which have been made with such eloquence and fervour on both sides of the House . |
| 25 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 26 | While Mr Fallon will probably not have had the chance to read the report , we think it unwise for him to dismiss it out of hand . |
| 27 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 28 | We feel privileged to have had the chance to be part of such a valuable learning experience . |
| 29 | I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests . |
| 30 | But I did have the chance of an exhibition , and it was just at that time , and I was working hard , and she — she , well , I suppose she was a distraction . ’ |