Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] had [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Thought as well , I 've never had the chance to go , I 'd like to go |
| 6 | I have never had the chance to put properly my side of the story . |
| 7 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 8 | She 's never had a chance . ’ |
| 9 | She 's never had a chance in life — but she trades on her ill-luck . |
| 10 | And we 've never had a chance to get together all the evening . ’ |
| 11 | That would be a very great challenge for us to do , especially because we have never had the chance before to think about that , but er now I think that could be , er could become reality and I 'm quite sure that er there are teachers from that part of Germany who would like to , to work in your country ; maybe er English teachers er from East Germany teaching the German language here , that 's one thing I could imagine . |
| 12 | It is not usual for the advisers of the Crown to draw people out of important work when they have hardly had a chance to do what they have undertaken . |
| 13 | He had never had the chance . |
| 14 | Being out in those hot countries , you know , he 's never had a chance to learn . |
| 15 | As he says , he 's never had a chance . |