Example sentences of "we [vb past] the opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I said as soon as we got the opportunity of moving away we would do , and we searched all over the erm , when it come to , went into Lincolnshire , went into Wales |
| 2 | We used the opportunity of the trip to visit some remote dispensaries on the way to the district hospital . |
| 3 | Team manager Mike Bantin , manager of Folkestone , said : ‘ The team won the South Eastern area fun day competitions on the last two occasions , so we relished the opportunity to compete on behalf of the company in a national event . ’ |
| 4 | In our network 's submission on the consultation document we welcomed the opportunity for user expertise to be used in this way if properly supported and paid for . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We took the opportunity to perform a postmortem on one of them , a 5 ½ m male . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We had the opportunity to make a fundamental change , and I could not believe that we would allow that opportunity to slip away . |
| 9 | The enhanced results which can be obtained using a combined therapeutic regime are well illustrated by a study which we had the opportunity of carrying out about three years ago at a residential health establishment in Crieff . |
| 10 | ‘ From our point of view we had the opportunity to start a new firm which had a client base already , and with ‘ support ’ from E&Y , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | Despite that , Martha and I had a wonderful wedding , and were very grateful that when other families were separated , we had the opportunity to be together . |
| 12 | Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you think it would be different if we had the opportunity to be together every night ? ’ |
| 14 | Well , I mean , we had the opportunity , you know chit-chat job and mum said are we gon na go down over the weekend ? |
| 15 | Even as late as last May we had the opportunity for restructuring a number of committees we flunked it . |
| 16 | I went into dyslexia because when I did that course we had the opportunity to do a special study of a subject of our own choice and I spent a lot of time on dyslexia because I was already interested in it before I started . |