Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catalogues and mail order services share the disadvantages of offering a limited selection , and , more importantly , not allowing you the chance to examine the item until it arrives at the door . |
| 2 | Never keep callers waiting while you look for information or try to transfer them , etc. , without explaining what you are doing and giving them a chance to call back if they are in a hurry or if they are calling long-distance . |
| 3 | Well if you have other applications running the reason is obvious — you are cutting them off in their prime without giving them a chance to save data or clean up any temporary files that they might be using . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 5 | We 're giving them a chance to show us what they can do . ’ |
| 6 | But even now , I still believe that if you trust someone you 're giving them the chance to prove that they are trustworthy . |
| 7 | Thanks a lot Lifes A Beach for giving me a chance . |
| 8 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 9 | Without giving me a chance to explain you 've decided that not only am I guilty , but I 'm a moron as well . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you for believing in me , for giving me a chance . |
| 11 | Thank you very much Mr Chairman thank you very much for giving me a chance to speak this afternoon . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 13 | Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls . |
| 14 | I 've got I , I as I say , I feel very grateful to the society for giving me the chance . |
| 15 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 16 | I 'm therefore doubly grateful to you for giving me the chance to meet you today , and I hope that some of the contacts I might make today will stand me in good stead in the job that I 'm doing in Oxford over the next year or so . |
| 17 | So thank you for giving me the chance to , to air that view . |
| 18 | EVERY YEAR the British Film Institute issues a package of British short films by up-and-coming movie-makers , giving you a chance to read for the first time the credits you 'll be seeing on Channel 4 in the next couple of years . |
| 19 | You should arrive around 9.45am , giving you a chance to buy some local wines before your 11.45 sailing for Koblenz . |
| 20 | I 'm just giving you a chance to tell us , that 's all . |
| 21 | ‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm giving you a chance to convince me . |
| 23 | Music throughout the programme and a musical competition at the beginning giving you a chance to win a prize if you can answer the question about the record . |
| 24 | After only half an hour we can tack left and right — a must in general , as going downwind puts the canopy between you and the way ahead giving you no chance of avoiding rocks and ruts — so that we can move almost anywhere in an arc that is up to 45 degrees on either side of the wind . |
| 25 | By day there are also boats from Ortakent which stooge around to other beaches and bays , giving you the chance to fully explore the area at a leisurely pace . |
| 26 | Children too are well catered for , giving you the chance to have some time off as well . |
| 27 | This flashes after you 've pressed it once , giving you the chance to change your mind ; press it again and you 've overwritten whatever patch was in that memory previously . |
| 28 | Now we 're giving you the chance to experience the thrills and spills of life as a Windsor with our royal snakes and ladders game . |
| 29 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm giving you the chance to escape . |