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Example sentences for "early opportunity"

  • You have had no answer from her you say; then take an early opportunity of seeing her, and pressing for a reply.

  • In almost quite correct evening attire, and entirely decorous in speech and gesture, he might readily have been thought some one that mattered, had he not at an early opportunity caught my eye and winked with a sly significance.

  • In contracting with him for my bread and rolls, I took an early opportunity of setting the chap in his place, as indeed it was not difficult to do when he had observed the splendid scale on which I was operating.

  • I resolved to warn the mother at an early opportunity of the perils of an unrestricted diet, although the deluded creature seemed actually to glory in its corpulence.

  • I therefore intend--if the craft is bound into the river like ourselves--to make an early opportunity to pay her a visit on some pretext or other.

  • Father Banks took an early opportunity to give them each some good advice, and managed to draw them apart for that purpose.

  • Thus speaking, he continued looking at the picture for a short time, and then took his departure, after requesting Mr. Walters to call upon him at an early opportunity.

  • Everything was so fresh and nicely flavoured that both the travellers ate very heartily; then, being much fatigued with their two days' journey, they seized an early opportunity to retire.

  • Captain Staunton took an early opportunity to speak to Bob respecting his unfortunate lack of education and culture.

  • Bob was greatly surprised at this state of things; so much so that he sought an early opportunity to inquire of Lance the meaning of it.

  • Unfortunately the depression was not confined to agriculture, as the Common Council took an early opportunity of pointing out to Parliament in their petition against the renewal of the income tax (8 Feb.

  • As soon as the mayor satisfied him on this point, he promised to take an early opportunity of consulting the king.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    combustion engines; crying bitterly; early childhood; early crop; early death; early development; early hour; early infancy; early manhood; early marriages; early morning; early nineteenth; early printed; early printing; early rising; early settlement; early settler; early summer; early times; early work; early writers; general paralysis; lofty trees; please write; slowed down; warm welcome