Sentence examples for proved unavailable from inspiring English sources

Today I took my four-year-old to London zoo, where I am currently appearing as the pre-recorded voice of a spider, Morgan Freeman having proved unavailable.

The hospital's director general, John Chol, referred the Guardian to an undersecretary at the health ministry, who proved unavailable despite numerous calls.

Even a city-owned dock on City Island in the Bronx proved unavailable, said one of the buyers, Charlie Ritchie, a youth counselor in Yonkers.

Katharine Hepburn was both the director Howard Hawks's and the studio's first and only choice to play the ditzy socialite, but Cary Grant was approached by the producers only after their preferred actor — Ray Milland — proved unavailable.

Cher, too, proved unavailable.

When Loesser proved unavailable, Feuer and Martin succeeded in interesting Rodgers and Hammerstein in the project.

His game plan is to demand the sacrifice of Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), the in-house princess; should she prove unavailable, he will "unleash the Kraken" on the city.

Ralph Fiennes proving unavailable, Carmen and Rob find a way to make their surprising connection work, eventually creating, with her son and his anorexic daughter, "one of those awkward, reconstructed families that create a new geometry out of everyone's already existent problems".

The striker has just served a three-game suspension so, if he does prove unavailable, it would be a major blow to Manchester United, who are unbeaten in four matches as they head to the Etihad Stadium for the 168th meeting with Manchester City.

Three times last October this reporter sought a taste of the legendary Saveh, but on each occasion, because of some unfathomable misunderstanding, the fruit proved mysteriously unavailable.

When they both proved to be unavailable, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Bill Paxton and Emilio Estevez auditioned for the part.