Example sentences of "before [noun] have a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Kenneth had a chance to mention Professor Sikora , Dr McKenzie lifted the phone . |
| 2 | Seven swans swimming arrived and disappeared again before Paddington had a chance to see them . |
| 3 | Before Katherine had a chance to answer , the second lunch gong sounded followed , seconds later , by the jangle of the hall bell . |
| 4 | ‘ Shae 's our make-up artist , ’ Dane cut in before Shannon had a chance to open her mouth . |
| 5 | All before Dorothea had a chance to ask if she would come to tea to meet Florence Ames again . |
| 6 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 7 | Before Dalgliesh had a chance to speak she said , with a trace of belligerence : |
| 8 | They kept running , and were gone before Susan had a chance to figure out what that meant and whether she should answer it . |
| 9 | Spray with simazine-based weedkiller the cracks between paving spots before weeds have a chance to reach any size . |
| 10 | She rushed up the stairs to the top of the house where she knew her brother 's room was before Nick had a chance to show her the way . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone 's asking themselves , ’ she went on before Melissa had a chance to put a brake on her roller-coaster imagination , ‘ whether there could be a connection between this crime and the Angelica Caroli murder . |