Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a 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 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 6 | But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 10 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 11 | He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |
| 18 | She walked heavily upstairs again , relieved to have a chance to think through her options undistracted by David 's physical presence . |
| 19 | However , everyone needed to have a chance of input into the policies . |
| 20 | Suddenly he decided to take a chance : somehow they would get Therese on to the stage in that ridiculous boy 's costume and let her sing . |
| 21 | You did have a chance to see her when you went back and she was standing by the bed with the light on . |
| 22 | That 's right , I do n't think they did have a chance first half and we created maybe eight or nine chances , you know , really good clear chances and really we need to be putting more that one away and we need to kill the game off first half when we 're so superior in that sort of performance , you know . |
| 23 | We did get a chance to see a little of Riyadh which is a big bustling city . |
| 24 | Oh , yes , I never did get a chance to fly that big buzzard . |
| 25 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 26 | However , though I had missed a chance , the advantages were now all on my side and distinctly in my favour . |
| 27 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 28 | He would wait another couple of years , he told himself , until Grégoire had had a chance to catch up , and was more confident . |
| 29 | The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them . |
| 30 | He wondered what was wrong , wishing he had had a chance to talk to Ruth — though from the expression on her face as she hovered behind Cashman she did n't know either . |