Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if I should chance to run over a cad . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't set out to find you — it 's sheer coincidence that I should chance to walk along the same street and into the same pub . |
| 3 | so I might chance it |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll chance it , ’ said Joe , and paid for the boater . |
| 5 | Well , I said , I 'll have them , I 'll chance them , I said like that to him . |
| 6 | Perhaps I can chance it . ’ |
| 7 | She had five whole days to go yet before she might chance to see Vendelin Gajdusek , she mused and , suddenly fired with enthusiasm , and mobile , she toyed with the idea of taking a look at the other spa towns — if they were not too far distant . |
| 8 | If this was sort of a cubic or something then you 'd have all sorts of terms and you could chance of making a mistake . |
| 9 | But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice … |
| 10 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 11 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 12 | My dear chap , a different path lies before each man and no one of us can tell what road he may chance to follow . ’ |
| 13 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |