Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishing expeditions should be limited to the sort of angling , which for sportswriter Jimmy Cannon ‘ has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're after an excuse to go on the prowl round those fashion-shops again — is n't that the truth of it ? ’ |
| 3 | I reach over the palletwood fence and pour water from the long spout into his half-empty ice cream tub , then straighten and stare at the huge , inert body , my mind searching for an excuse to proceed beyond the shed . |
| 4 | We always found an excuse to linger round the milking parlour , warmed by the steaming animals ; watching in admiration as one of the ladies coaxed milk from pink teats into a foaming bucket . |
| 5 | as an excuse to get in the bedrooms |
| 6 | After that it would be simpler to make a journey into the country than to find an excuse to walk through the hospital doors . |
| 7 | Again we can see the effect that loss has upon us , where the first stage is shock and disbelief , and an inability to take in the reality of what is being said . |
| 8 | This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age . |
| 9 | Instead , he announced the appointment of an ombudsman to mediate between the public and the civil service , promised that proposals for democracy would be considered soon , and said that the opposition would be permitted to run in legislative elections expected in April 1994 . |
| 10 | They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car . |
| 11 | There was over an hour to go before the final briefing . |
| 12 | It also took them an hour to assemble in the darkness and likewise they discovered that most of their supply containers were missing . |
| 13 | If we would give him half an hour to get over the shock of his resurrection he would quietly sit down with a piece of paper ( the back of a bigger envelope , I suppose ) and would work out the relevant design formulae . |
| 14 | He had an hour to get to the library , do his research and return for Maisie . |
| 15 | It must take him at least half an hour to get to the point of the flash and back to his own bank , even if it turned out to be a wild goose chase and he was able to return immediately . |
| 16 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 17 | and , and if you wan na come home , there 's supposed to be a bus at half past four , and our lecture finished at quarter to four , so you like , three quarters of an hour to get to the bus , right , and then it did n't turn up . |
| 18 | It had taken Duroc at least three quarters of an hour to get through the Holderness-Manolo security system . |
| 19 | Firemen had taken nearly an hour to cut through the roof and dig the rubble with their hands . |
| 20 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 21 | This gives wardrobe and make-up girls an opportunity to fluff round the star . |
| 22 | The visit of the Association was not unlike the coming of a circus : local intellectuals had an opportunity to mingle with the eminent who came in droves , cities competed in the lavishness of their entertainment , and in days before radio and television one could see and hear well known speakers addressing scientific audiences , or sometimes great crowds of working men . |
| 23 | In particular the crisis was seen by Washington as an opportunity to press for the rearmament of West Germany . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State and his officials had an opportunity to participate in the process of plan-making . |
| 25 | The publisher is offered an opportunity to respond to the Government 's response . |
| 26 | Later it would be helpful if both were given an opportunity to talk to the ward sister and doctor . |
| 27 | Employees said that they would like further presentations and an opportunity to talk to the directors of other departments in the future . |
| 28 | Many , however , did have an opportunity to talk to the advisers responsible for multicultural education , provision for equal opportunities and children with special needs . |
| 29 | The value of anticipatory mourning has been proved in hospital work , where patients who know in advance that they are going to have an operation which entails the loss of a breast , a testicle or a limb have an opportunity to talk before the operation about their fears and anxieties . |
| 30 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |