invent an excuse

If the woman didn't move soon she would have to invent an excuse.

So he invented an excuse and stayed in a different place.

She didn't even go to the trouble of making him invent an excuse.

Before he could invent an excuse to investigate, the door opened.

She accused Lewis of inventing an excuse to fire her.

I stopped in the middle of a sentence, invented an excuse, and started to flee her.

She was not going to have to invent an excuse to ring Veronica after all.

Having invented an excuse, it was necessary to live up to it.

George and Jerry invent an excuse to explain their presence in the lobby of an office building.

He didn't have brains enough to invent an excuse.

"You can't even invent an excuse that wouldn't be embarrassing to repeat in public," he said.

His continued surliness hurt, but at least she didn't have to invent an excuse to avoid him tonight.

Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an excuse.

He suddenly felt uncomfortable and invented an excuse to depart the embarrassing scene.

Carol becomes suspicious and starts to investigate, even inventing an excuse to visit him.

No one has anything to say to anyone else, and the McKelveys invent an excuse to leave early.

Inventing an excuse to go off and murder Broussard?

They also don't call to cancel and if pressed will invent an excuse instead of providing an honest apology.

As soon as he finished eating, he invented an excuse to leave the house.

It wasn't easy, answering all Mother's questions and inventing an excuse to explain my nap to Father.

The Shadow invented an excuse to stay.

He was spared the need to invent an excuse by a flurry of cheerful greetings at the front door.

It's a song against yearning: the man seems to be inventing an excuse in order to avoid romantic entanglement.

When the vizir saw that it was as the Caliph said, he trembled with fear, and immediately invented an excuse.

Jode would invent an excuse to get Sebastian... where?