Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] 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 | Er , Hugh , would you , you have n't had a chance to say anything . |
| 11 | It is obvious that the FLN [ the former ruling National Liberation Front ] had led our country into this dead end , and the FIS had not missed a chance throughout this campaign to deny that Islam is the opposite of human rights , the opposite of democracy … |
| 12 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 13 | She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now . |
| 14 | The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case . |
| 15 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |
| 16 | We 've not had a chance for a word with Mrs Fitton yet . |
| 17 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 18 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 19 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 20 | Oh well you 've still got a chance to go and get her ready duck . |
| 21 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 22 | Yesterday she had n't had a chance to look properly . |
| 23 | Well I had n't got a chance to . |
| 24 | And on most of the occasions when they had been alone together he had n't let a chance slip by . |
| 25 | And we 've never had a chance to get together all the evening . ’ |
| 26 | She realised that more was called for and went on : ‘ I 'm curious because I 've never had a chance to look round here before . ’ |
| 27 | but I 've never had a chance to see the play , and I 've got I 've got a full book of his works upstairs , and |
| 28 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 29 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 30 | Chris 's sister-in-law loved the baby and when he died she was so upset she told Chris that little Tommy had never had a chance . |