Example sentences of "decided [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 2 | He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself . |
| 3 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 4 | Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went . |
| 5 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 6 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |
| 7 | So I decided to go back to the ship again , and get some more things . |
| 8 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 9 | I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little . |
| 10 | I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message . |
| 11 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |
| 12 | While one crew got through , Jugoslavs Rodic/Kvezenic decided to retreat back to the jetty , leaving marshal John Griffiths to pacify an irate violence-threatening angler . |
| 13 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 14 | Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year . |
| 15 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 16 | ‘ Harry had a chip shop in Bradford and it was because of his wife 's health that he decided to move out to the Dales in 1928 , ’ said Richard Richardson , Harry Ramsden 's marketing director . |
| 17 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |