Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 2 | ‘ She has n't got a chance . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't got a chance . |
| 4 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 5 | ‘ Against France and Britain , Hitler has n't got a chance . |
| 6 | ‘ As though it 's just been created and has n't had a chance to get fouled up with so-called ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 7 | cos it has n't had a chance |
| 8 | ‘ He has n't had a chance against lesser bowling . |
| 9 | you see up to now she has n't had a chance to okay maybe it 's erm |
| 10 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 11 | The preliminary chat which usually prefaces the interview proper is intended to break the ice and give both sides a chance to size each other up . |
| 12 | ‘ I reckon I will have to win twice to have a chance of getting a Ryder Cup place , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Er , Hugh , would you , you have n't had a chance to say anything . |
| 14 | With the train rapidly bearing down on her she did not stand a chance . |
| 15 | They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there . |
| 16 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 17 | The witnesses did not get a chance to give evidence against the killer in court . |
| 18 | Mr Nagdi had been carrying a gun when he left for work yesterday but he did not get a chance to use it . |
| 19 | Different species often do not get a chance to interbreed because they live in different geographic areas , or in different localities within an area ( one species at the tops of trees , the other on the ground , for example ) , or they might be active at different times of day . |
| 20 | Although pumping out water can bring problems if aquifers do not have a chance to recharge , groundwater is such an enormous resource that it would be unthinkable for us to stop using it . |
| 21 | In those circumstances , teachers do not have a chance of achieving the level of examination success that might be achieved in more favourable teaching conditions . |
| 22 | Did n't stand a chance from the start . |
| 23 | If this was Drew 's type , she did n't stand a chance . |
| 24 | When he took the stage to collect the award ( winning it for the second time following two years of Vivienne Westwood ) , Ozbek did n't stand a chance . |
| 25 | It was made clear to me by my mother , sometimes backed up by my sisters , that as far as the opposite sex was concerned , I did n't stand a chance . |
| 26 | We did n't stand a chance — England were going to get away with anything . |
| 27 | We were greeted by unnaturally cheerful ranger , who told us that there were 56 people on the list ahead of us so we did n't stand a chance and that it would probably rain anyway . |
| 28 | In the face of Queeensrÿche they did n't stand a chance . |
| 29 | Roman was intent on making sure her twin did n't stray back to Garry , and , with Dana ready and willing to co-operate with him , Claudia did n't stand a chance . |
| 30 | In the face of Queeensrÿche they did n't stand a chance . |