Example sentences of "had any chance " in BNC.

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1 Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street .
2 They consider , sometimes in fairly abstract terms , the kinds of policies which Labour might have adopted , without asking whether such policies had any chance of securing parliamentary support .
3 When asked if he thought that Britain had any chance at all , he was more reassuring .
4 Team Costa Rica were openly demoralised and reduced to tears by their disqualification and Cafe Britt had any chance of success stolen from them with the retirement of an injured team member .
5 ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’
6 ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette .
7 The booklet made clear that only households with children , who had no home of their own , or elderly people needing warden-assisted accommodation , had any chance of being rehoused .
8 When she had written to Mark Heathwood and to George Wilson , asking whether he had managed to find out whether Raffaella had any chance of getting permission to live in England , Julia pulled a new sheet of writing paper towards her and wrote a chatty , cheerful letter to her mother .
9 Certainly felt if Sri Lanka had any chance at all of knocking off these runs , they had to score big hundreds .
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