Example sentences of "[pron] another chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | treat employees sympathetically if they relapse and give them another chance if they take advice and undergo treatment |
| 2 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 3 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 4 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 5 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 6 | All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’ |
| 7 | Give me another chance . |
| 8 | ‘ Please give me another chance . |
| 9 | England have only beaten the Turks 1–0 in their last two clashes and Wright admitted : ‘ The manager has given me another chance , now I 'm desperate to repay that faith . |
| 10 | ‘ To give me another chance . ’ |
| 11 | God grant me another chance , and I 'll make better use of it ! ’ |
| 12 | WE 'RE giving you another chance to sample life at the top with Vernons Pools — an extra route to enter our five free contests themed on what it would be like to win the pools . |
| 13 | We 'll give you another chance , I do n't think we can actually , well |
| 14 | And we 'll be giving you another chance to hear all those questions at the end of our programme on Friday . |
| 15 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 16 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 17 | She decided to give him another chance , this time on her own terms . |
| 18 | As these authors point out , to can only be dropped ( optionally ) in non-assertive contexts ( as with dare and need ) , the to-less form being completely unacceptable to speakers of English in assertive uses : ( 78 ) * We ought give him another chance . |
| 19 | Why do n't England give him another chance he may be getting old , but oh boy , he can still play . |
| 20 | ‘ We are giving him another chance , but the pressure is now on him to show us what he is capable of , ’ said Laporte . |
| 21 | Give her another chance , do . ’ |
| 22 | If it disappoints , do n't scrap it at once , but wait for a second year and give it another chance to redeem your hopes and optimism . |
| 23 | ‘ Now we are selling 50,000 vehicles it gives us encouragement that European consumers will forget the past and give us another chance , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 24 | All right , if you insist , but do come round this evening and give us another chance to try to persuade you … |
| 25 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |