Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [num ord] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I said right you 've got a second chance this morning , how could you improve that piece of work in front of you now . |
| 2 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 3 | He 'd been offered a second chance of salvation . |
| 4 | Shuttle 's foes given a second chance |
| 5 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 6 | This is a big day for Victor Ubogu , at tighthead , given a second chance at the expense of the vastly more experienced Jeff Probyn . |
| 7 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |
| 8 | Those who accepted his commandments were to be judged in punctilious accordance with the law , whereas the ignorant savage in the darkened jungle who could not possibly have known the light would be treated with gentleness and given a second chance . |
| 9 | " Chaucer " is the only interrupted character who is made to take the opportunity to tell a second tale , although the Monk , too , in this same fragment , is given a second chance . |
| 10 | you 're given a second chance . |
| 11 | The red army fought in the courts and Swindon were given a second chance in the 2nd division . |
| 12 | She hopes soon after her penpal will be given a second chance to prove his innocence and escape the gas chamber . |
| 13 | In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance . |
| 14 | LIKE the children he helps , Rod Jones is being given a second chance . |
| 15 | Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 16 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 17 | In what other sports is a participant allowed a second chance because of failure ? |