run the chance
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Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground.
From Time Magazine Archive
He began by asking £500, and was then told that the Captain would run the chance and would sue his father for the £20,000 in the event of Sir Gregory dying before the Colonel.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony
It was evidently better to bivouac in the open than to run the chance of so crushing a punishment.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
You kept your word and disgraced me once, if I don't know how you did it; but I won't run the chance of that again!
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by Gage, George W.
"You should wear plenty of clothes in the winter time, or you may run the chance of taking cold."
From The Devil A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience by Manning, Marie
