Example sentences of "[verb] avail [pn reflx] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions .
2 ( i ) Ballot At the start of each session , all Members wishing to promote legislation ( or , more realistically , wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of securing publicity for a cause ) may enter their names on a ballot .
3 I would gladly have availed myself of the opportunity of taking a passage in her myself did I not find by so doing that the party would be entirely broken up and in all probability the trip to the westward abandoned altogether .
4 Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 .
5 Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in .
6 ‘ If you wish to avail yourself of the bathroom facilities , feel free .
7 Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered .
8 Certainly there is a need for education , but facilities for this exist already for those general practitioners who are minded to avail themselves of the opportunities .
9 During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) .
10 With all due respect to those who intended to avail themselves of the free offer , the first two appointments were not met with sufficient organization to permit cost-effective equipment testing .
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