Example sentences of "he [vb past] the opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though like most artists he regarded the opportunity to teach a mixed blessing , he had a knack for communicating and sufficient generosity of spirit to enthuse others . |
| 2 | He used the opportunity to issue charters for places across the whole duchy , he rave judgements and established lasting friendships with one or two important lords from which he was later to reap benefits . |
| 3 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 4 | He recognised the opportunity in last year 's East German revolution and grabbed it . |
| 5 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 6 | Whilst he missed his brother 's company , he welcomed the opportunity for being alone with his thoughts . |
| 7 | Pinchbeck 's return coincided with the 10th anniversary of Magnus production and he welcomed the opportunity to take the asset through a critical phase of its field life second time around . |
| 8 | In the light of all that , ladies and gentlemen , the choice of a speaker for the Charles Darwin centenary was not difficult , and indeed I know that he welcomed the opportunity to give this lecture , not least I 'm sure because of the controversies and the general noise that have erupted once again over the issues of evolution , both in the academies of the civilized western world , and even in deepest Arkensaw |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He took the opportunity of Sir Burke Trend 's retirement in 1973 to hack it down . |
| 14 | He took the opportunity of his first book after leaving No. 10 to state , ‘ I was not exaggerating when I called the 1974 Cabinet the most experienced and talented Cabinet this century , transcending even the Campbell-Bannerman Administration of 1905 . ’ |
| 15 | Each item he retrieved was examined with great care , and he took the opportunity to do some elementary housekeeping by discarding unwanted minutiae of his life . |
| 16 | He took the opportunity to bring forward again the British view that West German rearmament could easily be achieved , and with the necessary level of supervision to quell the worries of France and others , within NATO itself . |
| 17 | In a speech at the launch of the ss Trevethoe in February 1913 he took the opportunity publicly to declare that he was in favour of a conciliation board , and that he was not alone in this conviction . |
| 18 | Instead he took the opportunity to read the files again and look at extracts from the visual record — films taken throughout the eight years of Kim 's stay within the Recruitment Project . |
| 19 | ‘ That as soon as he was refuelled he took the opportunity of seeing if he could locate the remains of that American plane ? ’ |
| 20 | There was some laughter and he took the opportunity to sit down . |
| 21 | He took the opportunity to make the occasion a sound platform for what he wanted to say about food , farming and cross-border co-operation . |
| 22 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps we can come again tomorrow ? ’ he turned to suggest eagerly , while at the same time he took the opportunity to place one arm familiarly about her shoulders . |
| 24 | He refused all these , ‘ not on the ground that he was not employed to go there , but on the basis that he thought the opportunity of earning overtime was not good ’ . |
| 25 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 26 | Brassard 's phone began to ring ; he seized the opportunity to escape . |
| 27 | The withdrawal of Raymond Leppard meant an earlier than anticipated RSNO debut for Yuasa , and he seized the opportunity with some distinction . |
| 28 | Normally he mistrusted the use of women but he foresaw the opportunity of infiltrating her into Tweed 's company in the future . |
| 29 | By now he was hungry again and anxious to eat while he had the opportunity , but he dare not move from the corner until told to do so . |
| 30 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |