Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] the chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |
| 2 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 3 | Keep them out and you deny them the chance to share in our unpopularity . |
| 4 | ‘ The first 20 minutes will be critical and , the way he kicks , Botha could beat us on his own if we give him the chances , ’ said Carling , whose assessment was backed by pack leader Brian Moore . |
| 5 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 6 | But in the Edwardian love story , Howards End , her co-star is Sir Anthony Hopkins and it gives her the chance to shrug off the Olivier/Leigh and Burton/Taylor labels she and Branagh have collected . |
| 7 | They both looked thoughtful , heads side by side at the open oven door , while I wondered what the chances were of both heads fitting — and jamming — inside and the door safety-catch somehow short-circuiting . |
| 8 | He almost had me going , but my Rule of Life No. 14 is that when somebody offers you the chance of a lifetime , they usually mean theirs , not yours . |
| 9 | On the lower rung of legal self-determination the grant of customary franchises might be in a lord 's interests , for it could secure his revenues in perpetuity , even as it barred him the chance of arbitrary exaction ; besides , an early concession might prevent more explosive demands later . |
| 10 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |