Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] chance [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
2 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
3 | Now that the dust has had a chance to settle , certain incontrovertible facts about the way in which Retin-A works need to be taken on board by anyone considering using the product . |
4 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
5 | But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters . |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
8 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
9 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
10 | And now Tzanibey has seized the chance to defy you and poison it ? |
11 | Southend striker Brett Angell has rejected the chance to join second division leaders Blackburn Rovers in a £1 million deal . |
12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
15 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
16 | He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’ |
17 | 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 . |
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 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
20 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
21 | 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 . |
22 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | If only she 'd had the chance to ask him why he 'd had the affair . |
25 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
26 | He 'll have had a chance to sleep . |
27 | 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 ? ’ |
28 | Then , likely as not , he would hardly have had a chance to open his mouth before the Collector would be off again . |
29 | 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 ? |
30 | 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 . |