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  • You take a chance on the weather if you holiday in the UK." — "So what?
  • It's also refreshing that as a mainstream actor, he's taking a chance on a change-of-pace stint on Broadway-and playing omnisexual Peter Allen no less!
  • Struggling companies, once seen as a challenge, are now often deemed too risky to take a chance on.
  • Advance booking is always advisable but you can of course always take a chance on the day itself.
  • You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
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  • The chefs de partie get that chance only when a mistake so grave is made during service that it prevents an entire plate from going out—in that case, the plate will be shuttled back behind the pass and quickly scarfed down by the spoonful. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
  • Taking a chance on the roulette wheel could lead to empty pockets
  • Right now they aren't firing at me, I guess because of the tree cover, but I can't take that chance on stopping.
  • You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
  • You take a chance on the weather if you holiday in the UK.
  • Pierce Power had a good chance on 10 minutes when he met a cross from Ian Ryan but he blazed the ball across the area with the goal at his mercy.
  • The reason one goes here is to pray for a healthy and happy pregnancy and trouble free birth - fat chance on the first score so hopefully the birth will be ok.
  • He got his first chance on the early August day that Mayor George Miller awarded him the one-year job.
  • As the unit has been discontinued, it is unlikely that a firmware release would be developed for this unit in relation to the Mac update issue this is what you call bleeding edge I guess. taking a chance on something working when you have no guarantees or support from the manufacturer. sorry, this one is on those who bought the drive knowing well that buffalo didn't actually market to nor actively support Macs / mac users. Discussions: Message List - root
  • By some mischance one of the great owls, called horned owls, had come from the neighboring woods into the barn of one of the townsfolk in the night-time, and when day broke did not dare to venture forth again from her retreat, for fear of the other birds, which raised a terrible outcry whenever she appeared. Household Tales
  • Can anyone out there tell me what frequency Radio 5 broadcasts on ... by any chance on shortwave?
  • He was taking a chance on a relatively new young actor.
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • God cannot stand any kind of unfaithfulness in His army anymore than any other Commander of any other military force can take a chance on security risks and disobedience and failure to follow orders and obey commands. ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians
  • That's where the Titans drafted Kearse in 1999, taking a chance on someone called a tweener and seen more as a physical freak than polished product. Brownsville Herald :
  • In this report we present a patient with a cavitary lesion at his right upper lobe, found by chance on chest radiography. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
  • Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
  • You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
  • I can picture myself in their place, garnering the accolades, the applause, the love, if only someone would take a chance on me.
  • We concealed our case and abode on coals of fire till nightfall, when I opened the river-gate and, calling the boatman who had carried us the night before, said to him, 'I know not what is become of my mistress; so take me in the boat, that we may go seek her on the river: haply I shall chance on some news of her. Arabian nights. English
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
  • Advance booking is always advisable but you can of course always take a chance on the day itself.
  • In 1924, Simon and Schuster took a chance on publishing a book devoted to crosswords, and the crossword craze started.
  • When I came back from injury earlier this season, the gaffer took a chance on me and played me up front against Dundee United.
  • Go ahead with the tournament and take a chance on the checks being cashable when the banks open.
  • That's the situation with live sports: you get one chance and one chance only.
  • If per chance one of your birds becomes spraddle-legged, fasten a soft cord to one leg at the ankle.
  • The four Corners of the Table must be furnished with _four Holes_, and exactly in the middle of each side _one Hole_, and these Holes must be hung at the bottoms with _Nets_, Which Holes are named _Hazards_, because if either by Skill or Chance one Gamester strikes anothers Ball into these Holes, or Hazards, as we will now call them, he wins One; the The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • Much like the film it alludes to, this is an acquired taste, but worth taking a chance on, nonetheless.
  • `And if that Mr Kohn is perchance one of us, which I doubt, it strikes me we're better off without him," Laura said. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • This is the type of signing that exemplifies the best of free agency: a player who didn't mesh with one system receiving a chance on a team that is a better fit.
  • There's no indication that President Obama is a similar tippler, but I think it just means that the public's impatient, the public is worried, the public is lurching a little bit from side to side and saying, we'll take a chance on you. 'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do?
  • Sometimes we stay in luxurious hotels, but often we'll take a chance on serendipity and go somewhere simple. Times, Sunday Times
  • In so doing, On Time enables dealers to take a chance on customers with bad credit.
  • He was taking a chance on a relatively new young actor.
  • I can only stop the cue ball and take a chance on the bank shot.
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • Air America had taken a chance on her her prior broadcast experience was as a part-time “newsgirl” at a local radio station in western Massachusetts when it launched in 2004. Big Girls Don’t Cry
  • We decided we to take a chance on the jar of Petrossian whole goose foie gras in aspic with port wine.
  • Five minutes before the break, Jan Molby's pass gave Rob Jones a chance on the edge of the penalty area.
  • And rather than let this top-liner sleuth put it over me so easy I takes a chance on shootin 'a little more bull. Torchy and Vee
  • In Memphis, he has an experience that makes him realize that he is not as sophisticated or worldly as he thought: he meets a boy by chance on the road, and they come upon a jug of bootleg alcohol.

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