"We must do everything within our power not to give them the excuse."

Now, one more excuse for not having people over is gone.

And he has found a good excuse for doing so.

In which case, any excuse to take off will do.

People find the excuse they need to see a photo.

Actually, I was just looking for another excuse to call him.

Instead, he had used the key as an excuse to see them one more time.

But at least they had given him a real excuse to take over.

Sometimes she went home with them after school, just to have the excuse.

But why had she needed an excuse to come here at all?

She did want an excuse to be in my company.

"So what excuse do I give everyone for coming into the office today?"

Do you think what happened to your parents is some kind of excuse?

In fact, you gave me a good excuse to stop.

He found every excuse to be in his father's company.

What other excuse could He give man for making him?

He needed an excuse to have some time to himself.

He needed the excuse to stay out in the front room.

He always had an excuse not to study Company history.

Or was I just looking for an excuse to stay away?

Make any excuse so as not to come with him.

I made an excuse, and came to see what was going on.

Excuse me, but could you put the question in a different way?

So you'll have to excuse us for a few minutes.

Now if you'll excuse us we must get back home.

And now I am going to ask you to excuse me.

I finally had to excuse myself, and go talk to other people.

But I'm going to leave you for a little while now if you'll excuse me.

I tried to excuse myself, but Mother told me to stay.

And now if you two will excuse me, I want to look after the cut on my head.

"If you will excuse us we should get back to work."

And now, if you will excuse me, I really must get on.

Deep down, he wants to find a way to excuse him.

There would be nothing he could say to excuse himself.

By, now she would usually excuse herself and leave the room.

I then excuse myself and walk up to the room with you.

Now if you excuse me there is important work to be done.

Now if you'll excuse me I'd better get back inside.

"Excuse me for thinking we were here to do the right thing."

But excuse me from it now, and I will tell you the reason later.

Excuse me, but if this is the house of Death, what are you doing here?

He took a step toward her, his hands out, as if to excuse himself.

This death he would not be able to excuse as being part of his job.

Please excuse me for going on a little too long.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get to work.

What was he going to do, get a sick note?

You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor, but only if they have been away for more than seven days.

My mum must have written one hell of a sick note!"

When he'd gone I said: "Have they given you a sick note?"

On the 6 April 2010 the sick note was replaced by the fit note.

Three weeks later Hughes provided the club with a sick note, saying that he was unavailable until January.

We are bound," Robin finished for her, a sick note in her voice.

Mother, in the meantime, had supplied the school inspector with countless sick notes, always provided by her tame doctor.

It can serve as a "sick note" (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition.

There were no snide smirks today, and she wasn't acting like the kind of person who would write sick notes.

The government is to scrap the sick note that GPs have used for 60 years to sign people off work.

And it now being after Freedman's own self imposed deadline for sick notes to call in, he should have a team in mind.

If there was an Olympic Sick Note event, he would have been in the British team.

Whether or not you get a sick note is dependent on how benevolent your GP is.

For the six members of staff who have bravely volunteered for the challenge, there will be no more excuses, no sick notes available.

Get the "sick" back to work by reducing their number by half - tell doctors to decide and give them fixed sick note limits.

Sick Notes followed in 2004 and Joshua Spassky in 2007.

Johnson said sick notes were introduced in 1948 to protect vulnerable people, but they had become a mechanism for consigning thousands of workers to long-term unemployment.

Government to replace sick notes with 'fit notes'

Sick Notes (2004)

"The Sick Note"

His voice came down from the shadows in huge wads of sound, or like the warm, sick notes of some prodigious mouldering bell of felt.

The sick notes then begin to pile up, week after week-"He is in my opinion, unfit for duty and not able to travel," they each declared.

Paul Farmer, the chief executive of mental health charity Mind, said: "We welcome the plans to turn sick notes into fit notes.

He said when Mr McKay's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident.

"We must do everything within our power not to give them the excuse."

They could have an excuse to see each other every day.

Now, one more excuse for not having people over is gone.

And he has found a good excuse for doing so.

In which case, any excuse to take off will do.

People find the excuse they need to see a photo.

Actually, I was just looking for another excuse to call him.

Instead, he had used the key as an excuse to see them one more time.

But at least they had given him a real excuse to take over.

Sometimes she went home with them after school, just to have the excuse.

But why had she needed an excuse to come here at all?

She did want an excuse to be in my company.

"So what excuse do I give everyone for coming into the office today?"

Do you think what happened to your parents is some kind of excuse?

In fact, you gave me a good excuse to stop.

He found every excuse to be in his father's company.

He used any and every excuse to be out of the house.

He began trying to think of an excuse to get away.

What other excuse could He give man for making him?

He needed an excuse to have some time to himself.

He needed the excuse to stay out in the front room.

He always had an excuse not to study Company history.

Or was I just looking for an excuse to stay away?

Make any excuse so as not to come with him.

I made an excuse, and came to see what was going on.

How then to excuse oneself without slighting Steffan in any way?

Cognitive and behavioral strategies used to avoid or excuse oneself from imagined failure.

Another pretty good one is excusing oneself to get a drink or a refill, and never reappearing.

When sneezing, it is polite to cover one's nose with a hand, or excuse oneself to the restroom first.

Being a poet isn't a licence to excuse oneself from being fair-minded and rational.

One prevaricates, one makes excuses oneself, one gets out of it the best way one can.

It is precisely because one has to excuse oneself from improvised poetry events that the Basque country is the most engrossing region of France.

Things like determining whether a dangerous level of tension existed and getting oneself out of it - excusing oneself to go to the privy, for example.

"I think it's the normal reaction of the people to empty shelves, to lines, and to our eternal Slavic inclination to always blame the bosses, to accuse them of everything, and excuse oneself."

Besides tips for excusing oneself from bad blind dates and ending boring old friendships (always over a long period of time), Ms. Martinet has deft call-returning ideas for people who don't want to talk.

The Honest Jakes or Privy has graduated via Offices to the final horror of Toilet..." There are any number of lengthier periphrases for excretion used to excuse oneself from company, such as to powder one's nose, to see a man about a dog (or horse).

There is no time, and I am quite ready to excuse you.

Local history. 13. What is the best excuse you've ever made/heard for a poor performance?

I can't wait to hear the excuse you're going to give me.

I had no reason to excuse you to our guests.

This is an excuse you have thought up, isn't it?

For this reason, I have no choice but to excuse you from further jury service.

This may be the excuse you need for a holiday!

Excuse you saw me interviewing for the film the Master.

I know that all the excuses you have made are false.

In your next inform me on this point, and what excuse you made to A.

No matter what excuse you used, security should still have alerted me.

If you’re looking for excuses you can always find them, under the bed or in a cupboard.

But the object excuses you, since it was to try and save her.

You're not going to be a separate crown, whatever excuse you give.

All that you've just read doesn't excuse you if you're working in a business that's owned by someone else.

It’s not an excuse you can use every day — the whole “apocalypse is imminent and therefore I must buy these pants” thing.

I could very easily use that same excuse you did about forgetting anything.

The defense: You're there to work; that's the only excuse you need.

I appreciate the excuse you offer me to begin a little torture here and now.

In view of your great need, we will be pleased to excuse you from the proceedings.

Kinship's just an excuse you use to hurt and call it family business.

You'll find your private horse in the small pasture, and we'll excuse you for the summer.

But hey, the fewer excuses you're forced to make in life the better, right?

Come on, the good doctor will excuse you, eh Arthur?