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1  Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  He hung about on the chance of her giving him another ride home.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
3  They've took it out of me often enough with their ridicule when they had the chance; and now I mean to get a bit of my own back.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
4  Just give him the chance he wanted to show that Americans is not like us: that they recognize and respect merit in every class of life, however humble.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  And as she happened to talk to the lady of the furniture shop, and that lady also desired above all things to know Mr. Wells and sell pretty things to him, she offered Clara a job on the chance of achieving that end through her.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
6  He added that he had always been afraid to propose anything of the sort, because Clara would make an awful row about a step that must damage her matrimonial chances, and his mother could not be expected to like it after clinging for so many years to that step of the social ladder on which retail trade is impossible.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V