Example sentences of "[pers pn] have had [art] chance [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 2 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 3 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 4 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory . |
| 7 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 8 | ‘ This is the first time I 've had a chance to talk to you on your own , ’ he said thoughtfully , a speculative gleam in his hazel eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ And I 'm not going to commit myself to anything until I 've had a chance to talk to him . ’ |
| 10 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I like animals but I do n't like being told what to think before I 've had a chance to make up my own mind ! ’ |
| 12 | The first time I 've had a chance to have a look through this so could I erm |
| 13 | ‘ Not in the least now that I 've had a chance to study you him . |
| 14 | ‘ I will accept nothing of the sort , Miss Kenton , until I have had a chance to deal with the matter . |
| 15 | In these weeks , I have had the chance to listen to Joshua Nkomo calling for majority rule now . |
| 16 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
| 17 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If only she 'd had the chance to ask him why he 'd had the affair . |
| 21 | And it seems I wo n't get it until you 've had a chance to simmer down . |
| 22 | And then , when you 've had a chance to recover from your victory , we 'll fight the battle again . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't suppose you 've had a chance to see anything yet . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Someone jumping to an erroneous conclusion about your needs before you 've had a chance to explain yourself ’ . |
| 25 | And I think this one is better for several reasons , I think you can quite clearly see now once you 've had a chance to look at this , the other one we saw , we , we eliminated this boat , we eliminate that post and this boat , or rather we just have this post and the sea beyond . |
| 26 | Okay , hopefully you 've had a chance to make , to make notes on that . |
| 27 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 28 | She sniffed , and smiled a bit , but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who does n't understand you it 's someone who understands perfectly , before you 've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood . |
| 29 | The report and accounts have been in your hands for the statutory period er , and you 've had the chance to read my statement . |
| 30 | It is simply a method of inhibiting or stopping your debtor from cashing in his assets and putting them out of your reach before you have had a chance to recover what is owed to you . |