Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [art] opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn nearly got a second just before the break but this time Kavavaev was equal to a close-range effort after Gerry Taggart had provided the opportunity with a bustling header . |
| 2 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 3 | In the move between the last position and this , a number of the Jocks had taken the opportunity to make a hot drink , and as the chill of early morning crept into them , the sweet tea lifted their morale . |
| 4 | ‘ But Jefferson and Williams have had no opportunity to have their hands in the Cathedral till . |
| 5 | They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance . |
| 6 | Mrs Guest has had every opportunity to study the great taste-makers of the century — many were close friends . |
| 7 | Waugh had seen the opportunities of the conte almost twenty years earlier than Orwell ; but he had exhausted his interest before war broke out in 1939 , so that Brideshead and the Sword of Honour trilogy are firmly planted in a revived realistic tradition . |
| 8 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 9 | Apart from having limited time to try and spread the gospel about the tournament in its magnificent venue , if , as should have happened , Jimmy Connors had played , if John McEnroe had survived his first round , if Pat Cash had looked better prepared and if , as certainly should have been the case , Jeremy Bates had taken the opportunity he had to upset Wimbledon quarter finalist , Thierry Champion , the whole picture may have looked so different . |
| 10 | Should not John Major have taken the opportunity to cut away more of the dead wood from among the cabinet 's other 20 members ? |
| 11 | Sir Thomas Gray of Heton said that the peace was not in accordance with the king 's will and that the queen and Mortimer had used the opportunity of the king 's minority to arrange the whole thing . |
| 12 | Isabel had grasped the opportunity of his presence to escape from Gloucester . |
| 13 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |