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 .
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