Example sentences of "[vb past] decided [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had decided to opt for medicine rather than the stage , and had felt virtuous , mildly sacrificial , a little self-important while making this choice . |
| 2 | It was here , under a straggle of dwarf oaks and rowans that a troupe of elderly walkers had decided to halt for their feed . |
| 3 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 4 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 5 | I said no , it was just that before we went to bed last night , Aunt Kit had decided to look for her money . |
| 6 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 7 | They had decided to make for a small river valley in which there was an isolated church reached by a footpath across fields . |
| 8 | He had decided to investigate for himself the question of his mother 's land investments in Texas , the holdings her Wall Street advisers seemed so anxious she should sell — so anxious that Edouard was a little suspicious . |
| 9 | The first question in each of the opening interviews was why the practice had decided to apply for fundholding status . |
| 10 | This conjecture was reinforced when , on May 28 , the North Korean Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement which announced that the government had decided to apply for membership of the UN . |