1 It was the worst course I could have taken, because it gave Pumblechook the opportunity he wanted.
2 I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
3 I embrace this opportunity of remarking that he washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or a dentist.
4 I did intend to ask you to use any little opportunities you might have after I was gone, of improving dear Joe.
5 When the shadows of evening were closing in, I took an opportunity of getting into the garden with Biddy for a little talk.
6 But there was a quantity of chalk about our country, and perhaps the people neglected no opportunity of turning it to account.
7 As they were coming on at full speed, we got the two bags ready, and took that opportunity of saying good by to Herbert and Startop.
8 They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.
9 The opportunity that the day's rest had given me for reflection had resulted in my fully determining to say nothing to him respecting Compeyson.
10 Thinking that he did this to give me an opportunity of taking his Walworth sentiments, I seized the opportunity as soon as we were out of the Castle.
11 Whenever I fell asleep, I awoke with the notion I had had in the sluice-house, that a long time had elapsed and the opportunity to save him was gone.
12 I took the next opportunity; which was when she was waiting for Mrs. Blandley to take her home, and was sitting apart among some flowers, ready to go.
13 It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early opportunity of comparing my guardian's establishment with that of his cashier and clerk.
14 He was nothing to me, and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well.
15 He mentioned that there was an opportunity for a great amalgamation and monopoly of the corn and seed trade on those premises, if enlarged, such as had never occurred before in that or any other neighborhood.
16 And, Biddy, it shall rest with you to say whether I shall work at the forge with Joe, or whether I shall try for any different occupation down in this country, or whether we shall go away to a distant place where an opportunity awaits me which I set aside, when it was offered, until I knew your answer.
17 Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
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