Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [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 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well . |
| 4 | He knew then he 'd got a chance of winning . |
| 5 | From what I 've heard she 'd got no chance that lady ! |
| 6 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 7 | But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 11 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 12 | He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 14 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Not once had he tried to take advantage of her and he 'd had the chance . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | If I 'd had the chance , I would have finished what I 'd begun . ’ |
| 24 | If only she 'd had the chance to ask him why he 'd had the affair . |
| 25 | It was the sort of thing I 'd have done I suppose if I 'd had the chance . |
| 26 | And she could have done it again if only she 'd had the chance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I sure would have , if I 'd had the chance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |