A number of people took the occasion to be helpful.

I took the occasion to urge him not to talk about her.

"It was a kind of health that took the occasion to break out into religion."

Muslim leaders took the occasion to support the Palestinian cause.

Some have taken the occasion to offer him pastoral advice.

When I came in, she took occasion to go about some household duty.

Some American commentators have taken the occasion to question the value of a summit meeting.

I have already taken occasion to request that it may be corrected.

But even if it did not, the Government is likely to take the occasion to consider whether its export laws are stringent enough.

Instead, she said, most people took the occasion seriously.