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He had the opportunity to do any film he wanted, but rather than fast track Warner Bros .' choices for Batman Returns or Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, Burton opted to make Edward Scissorhands for Fox.
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had and opportunity
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.
She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;
For the moment there was no woman in his life, and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity.
Nevertheless he had ample opportunity to contest the statement before the appeal board.
Hence the petitioner had full opportunity to traverse the only conclusions of the Department on file with the Board.
Having had every opportunity to rebut the finding of the local board before both the hearing officer and the appeal board, petitioner cannot now claim that he was denied due process because he did not succeed.
Mr. Sharpe's arrival in the business did indeed provide what Mr. Brown had most coveted -- time for `` tinkering '', and the opportunity of carrying out in the back room those developments in precision graduation which most interested him at that time.
Individual differences in maturation and the development of readiness for learning to read indicate that not until the third grade have most children had ample opportunity to demonstrate their capacity for school achievement.
But it is crucial that here, unlike Burford, the trial court was ordered to retain the case until the state courts had had a reasonable opportunity to settle the state-law question.
The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.
She had no way of knowing in advance whether an opportunity for murder existed.
On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.
Maude had the opportunity to take the bottle of opium from Sarah's room.
No lack of opportunity, presuming she had a gun.
which he obviously had to be given the opportunity to say.
Forbes had motive and Stacy had opportunity.
However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.
Phillip wrote to Townshend from Rio de Janeiro on 25 April 1783, expressing his disappointment that the ending of the American War had robbed him of the opportunity for naval glory in South America.
Al-Baghdadi wrote that during the famine in Egypt in 597 AH ( 1200 AD ), he had the opportunity to observe and examine a large number of skeletons.
Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.
had and do
He had plenty of work to do.
`` We had to do something ''.
He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
All he had to do was light the fuses of the dynamite sticks, run to within ten yards of an open window in the barn and hurl the sticks through.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.
I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.
I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.
Mama didn't know what to do -- whether to tell on Rob Roy or not -- since she had the ear of Mrs. Coolidge more than the other maids.
Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle of letters that had accumulated for him, saying, `` But Mr. Hearst, what shall I do with this correspondence ''??
had and any
In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.
He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.
He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.
That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.
Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
He wore no head cover of any kind and, more odd, had no visible weapon.
he had no use any longer for exact time, even had the watch been running.
The fighting marshal had walked right into a trap and at any moment six slugs might slam into his hide.
Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.
Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.
In the center of any open space remaining our grandfathers had planted syringa and sweet-shrub, snowball, rose-of-Sharon and balm-of-Gilead.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
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