1.   The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse, as no blame could possibly be attributed to her.

2.   The phone call gave me the perfect excuse to leave.

3.   Once I had had a baby I had the perfect excuse to stay at home.

4.   A conservatory offers the perfect excuse to let your imagination run riot.

5.   It was the perfect excuse for ringing up complete strangers and asking all sort of personal questions.

6.   In fact, it gave her a perfect excuse to try, yet again, to get this wayward heart of hers under control.

7.   Americans love to go over the top and now they have the perfect excuse.

8.   And by imagining an evil glint in its small and beady eye, we find the perfect evolutionary excuse for our own beastly behavior.

9.   Bigamy would provide him with the perfect excuse.