Sentence examples for procuring tickets from inspiring English sources

A third-year literature student in Beard's college who owed him a favor (for procuring tickets to a Cream concert) gave him an hour on Milton, what to read, what to think.

For those who did not work on the Obama campaign or have other Capitol Hill connections, procuring tickets was an anxious matter of contacting their Congressional representatives and crossing their fingers.

"For other cybercriminals of all sorts it is actually more convenient to buy tickets from their peers, rather than going through the process of exchanging money into a proper currency and then procuring tickets though a regular travel agency," Vladimir Kropotov, Mayra Rosario Fuentes, and Fyodor Yarochkin, researchers for Trend Micro, wrote in a briefing document prepared for Motherboard.

It is not like the snobbish games of the East where it is almost impossible to procure tickets.

A friend who had procured tickets kindly invited me to accompany him to the Mass there, only to discover that the ticket was not actually to the Mass but to the greeting along Fifth Avenue.

Knowing what a bother it can be for the players to procure tickets for relatives, he told his son, who is married with a second child due in March, not to worry about him.

So this season, when the National Theatre of Scotland brought the show back, Feldman instituted a "Pay for a Vet" program, whereby patrons could procure tickets for veterans who felt inclined to revisit what they had already experienced in the theatre of war in the theatre of Dumbo.

Unless you own several sports teams, like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, or have access to a smattering of corporate box seats, like former General Electric Chief Executive Jack Welch Jack Welch, it's awfully difficult to procure tickets for premier sporting events.

It's the most important cultural and social event in the Federal Republic and it can take a decade or more to procure tickets for one of the master's six-hour operas, with the chance to sit in punishingly uncomfortable wooden seats and eat lobster-filled bratwurst between the acts.

Some – apparently those who'd never heard of the internet – camped out for days to procure tickets, then kicked off when they found they'd sold out.

Yet the following week, I attended — with the friend who had procured the tickets — the new opening.