After only three minutes he played in Defoe but the striker's touch let him down and the chance went begging.
The game became an end-to-end spectacle with both teams sensing the three points could be theirs but chances went begging time and again.
Although that opportunity went begging, the Dragons took a surprise lead soon after when Hugh Gustafson scooped up a loose ball and went haring through the midfield.
Clint Newton was stopped just short of the line and another chance went begging when Dobson's kick was blocked and the scrum-half knocked on trying to regather.
Federer held two match points in the second set tiebreak but they both went begging as Berdych won a thrilling match 3-6 7-6 6-4 against the five-time champion.
The Wallabies put the All Blacks on the back-foot from the off but Kurtley Beale was twice wayward off the tee as six points went begging early on.
The second set also proved a test of character for the unseeded Spaniard, after a match point against the title winner of 2007 and 2008 went begging with the set at 5-3.
Wicketkeeper Ramdin drove and cut Onions for consecutive boundaries for the 100-run partnership, but next ball, having made 46, he presented the bowler with a very acceptable caught-and-bowled opportunity - a chance that went begging.
But one break of serve saw a nervy-looking Murray concede the first set and, although he hit back in the second, three break points went begging in game one of the third set, which Roddick went on to take on a tie-break.
Thereafter, chance after chance went begging for Spurs, first Berbatov sliding the ball against the post with the goal gaping after Jenas had been set free by Huddlestone, and then the Bulgarian hitting the bar from 12 yards after more excellent work by Lennon.
Desperate for cash, Harvard Management went to outside money managers begging for a return of money it had expected to keep parked away for a long time.
The idea that the law went too far reached across party lines, with one conservative commentator saying it offered unions nothing more than collective begging.
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