Example sentences of "[pers pn] took the opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was another sunny morning and I took the opportunity to set off with Singi , our assistant sirdar , for a shapely rock peak rising above the campsite and offering the prospect of an interesting climb and a good viewpoint . |
| 2 | I took the opportunity to — make use of a very convenient cache . |
| 3 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 4 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 5 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 6 | The disembarkation began immediately , and I took the opportunity of a run ashore with the others to survey our unique landfall . |
| 7 | It was a day to remember ; we were all quite taken by Fair Isle and I took the opportunity to dig out a few facts and figures about this remote island . |
| 8 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 9 | I took the opportunity to enjoy an excellent luncheon . |
| 10 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last Friday , on a delegation to Kiev , I took the opportunity — as I had always promised myself that I would if ever I were in Kiev — to visit Babi Yar , just outside the city limits , where in two years of Nazi terror and occupation tens of thousands of people were murdered ? |
| 11 | I took the opportunity in the interval between speaking and listening to the Minister 's wind-up to consult ’ Erskine May ’ on the subject of changing Bills ' titles . |
| 12 | I took the opportunity to have a word with the Kentish Constabulary 's finest . |
| 13 | My Lords , I took the opportunity knowing this question was coming up last Friday to spend an entire morning on the site in the building |
| 14 | The herdsman beat a tactful retreat to the end of the cowshed and then I took the opportunity to say what I thought . |
| 15 | She took the opportunity despite the fact that many of her colleagues let her know that they judged her disloyal . |
| 16 | She took the opportunity to check the tape was running . |
| 17 | She took the opportunity to retire before her normal retirement date but I am too much of a gentleman to divulge her age . |
| 18 | His grip slackened and she took the opportunity to tear away from him . |
| 19 | ‘ What pains me is that you took the opportunity when I was sick unto death to steal Prince Edward 's heart from me , ’ she said to Joan , having informed her of the plan . |
| 20 | I 'm delighted Bishop you took the opportunity to so address us and it underlines our benefit in being able to have our delegates participate in our debates and discussions . |
| 21 | We took the opportunity to drive the outgoing model while we had the new one and were left in no doubt about which was the driver 's car . |
| 22 | We took the opportunity to perform a postmortem on one of them , a 5 ½ m male . |
| 23 | It was n't worth going back to Edinburgh ( after the graduation ceremony ) so we took the opportunity to visit our old friends the Kembles , who live in South Croydon , which is only a mega traffic jam 's throw from Gatwick . |
| 24 | WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months . |
| 25 | In 1990 they took the opportunity to rebuild them as well as allocating extra money to services such as education in the wake of legislative changes . |
| 26 | They took the opportunity to share in the daily 10 o'clock Mass , a privilege denied them during their working life . |
| 27 | One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 28 | After visiting a geothermal heating plant , he took the opportunity of a walkabout in the shopping centre to mock Mr Major 's use of a soapbox . |
| 29 | After a week in the country , Baxter 's health greatly improved and so he took the opportunity to preach in some of the needy country churches in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 30 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |