Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Montana said : ‘ Steve and the team are playing well so they are not going to take a chance of throwing me in unless they have to . ’ |
| 2 | It was , though , and you 're going to have to learn to live with that fact , because you 're certainly not going to get a chance to put it right ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ A few moments later and he would not have stood a chance . ’ |
| 4 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 5 | I 'm not giving Garry a chance to skip off again . ’ |
| 6 | I would n't mind taking a chance , to sleep somewhere more comfortable than this . |
| 7 | Luke Calder was n't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future . |
| 8 | ‘ Without funds being raised he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 9 | Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 10 | If I 'd known that , I would n't have stood a chance . ’ |
| 11 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 12 | And you 're quite sure that while the car was down in Streatley , the thieves who I 'm after would n't have had a chance to take it and use it for their break-in ? ’ |
| 13 | You would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 14 | But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ? |
| 15 | ‘ We ca n't find 'im , but it 's so deep and 'as such strong currents , 'e ca n't 'ave 'ad a chance . ’ |
| 16 | Ca n't seem to get a chance . |
| 17 | Sixteen weeks early , and er they er really did n't seem to stand a chance erm of living but a lot of them did and that was amazing . |
| 18 | Obviously this is n't always the case with ex-offenders — even those who are like this tend to get branded by society , and so do n't get given a chance to start anew . |