Example sentences of "'d [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well . |
| 3 | He knew then he 'd got a chance of winning . |
| 4 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 5 | But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least . |
| 6 | The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up . |
| 7 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 8 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 9 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 10 | He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 12 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 13 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 14 | She was n't going to risk being thrashed again in conversation , not yet , not until she 'd had a chance to recharge her worn batteries . |
| 15 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |