Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
| 2 | Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll have to take a chance wo n't I ? |
| 4 | Non-tidal and desperately steep , they 'll be too hard for an old fart like me ; but round the corner is a huge , blocky , roofed sweep of rock on which I 'd reckon to stand a chance . |
| 5 | In any case , with the church deserted it would be quite safe I felt certain — provided there were no more nasty shocks , I 'd have to take a chance on that — to descend . |
| 6 | I feel I would have had a chance of breaking my North West ‘ duck ’ . |
| 7 | You should have nipped into the Gulf of Corinth — you might have stood a chance there . ’ |
| 8 | No no I would n't do that I always do it like this if I was playing that hand three flu well you could go well you got a choice you can go take a chance on your last hand , not getting through or you can go two , three , five , six , seven two three four , ace finish them which is what I 'd probably do . |
| 9 | If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out . |
| 10 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 11 | He 'll have had a chance to sleep . |
| 12 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 13 | We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance . |
| 14 | Which of us can afford to forgo a chance like that in these troubled times ? ’ |