Example sentences of "[adv] had [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |
| 2 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 3 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 4 | We 've not had a chance for a word with Mrs Fitton yet . |
| 5 | She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now . |
| 6 | No communication has been sent to the British Government about European reference prices , so I have not had a chance to study those , but I pay full tribute to the improvement in productivity . |
| 7 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 8 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 9 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 10 | He 's not had a chance yet . |
| 11 | Vast benefactions brought these men knighthoods or baronetcies or honorary degrees from universities they had endowed but not had the chance to attend . |
| 12 | If people have not had the chance to say the things they wanted to say then the sense of unfinished business can be overwhelming . |
| 13 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 14 | They have simply not had the chance at school to demonstrate whether or not they are actually able to go on with mathematics . |
| 15 | However , hundreds of people have already had a chance to view a model of the plan . |
| 16 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That earthly paradise , only sixty minutes gone , when Liam had still had the chance of growing up to be a man , Odette of growing old . |
| 20 | Now , I have n't totally had a chance to talk to Mr er , about that , but I would assume that means you er , and so it 's moving in the other direction if anything Mrs . |
| 21 | ‘ It struck us that these children had n't really had a chance to see what ballet was . ’ |
| 22 | We had n't really had a chance to talk — you know what it 's like in hospital , so unreal , so sterile … |
| 23 | Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering . |
| 24 | I had n't even had a chance to wash it ! |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , but you have n't even had a chance to unpack . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you have n't had a chance to unpack . |
| 27 | I have n't had a chance to wear this outfit to go out yet — but I will . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm disappointed for those under 14s who have n't had a chance to see me this time , but I 'm looking forward to doing a full scale tour probably next year when everyone will have a chance to come along , ’ she added . |
| 29 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | Have n't had a chance to do anything to the room since . |