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• Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
• We had the chance to meet the president last week.
• Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
• There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
• It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
• if a bird's nest chance to be before thee
• I chanced on this letter.
• Once [...] it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely, a Prelate rather troublesome to our Abbot, made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford.
• Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
• [...] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling [...]
• Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
• Come what will, I will chance it.
• He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
• No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.
• Why not buy a lottery ticket? Take a chance!
• What are the chances of rolling a 12 with two dice?
• Did you have a chance to call her yesterday?
• We met by pure chance.