Example sentences of "it had [art] chance " in BNC.

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1 Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play .
2 I purchased some Caulerpa serptularoides some time ago , but it was devoured before it had a chance to become established .
3 Luckily they were near the B-H-S store and put the fire out before it had a chance to catch hold .
4 It would n't have stopped anything very determined , and it had no chance with Jekub .
5 On the Cairngorm plateau the pressure of walkers ' feet on rare mosses and lichen continues to damage a sub-arctic habitat that would take 100 years to repair — if it had the chance .
6 Now she knew the potency of his sexual technique , she could switch into an appropriate iceberg act , freeze the moment before it had the chance to escalate into another near-escape like the one by the Blue Grotto …
7 But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so .
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