Example sentences of "decide [to-vb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as the clamour grows for Mansell to reverse his decision to quit , the public hero has decided to give it a go in America . |
| 2 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 3 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 5 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |
| 6 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 7 | It is only when you take the courage to look at yourself and your life — without judgement , without prejudice — that you can decide to make it a new life . |
| 8 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 9 | The Appendix needs another eight feet to be climbable , so I decide to leave it a week . |
| 10 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 11 | Phoebe decided to give it a go . |
| 12 | I did n't really fancy it myself but decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 13 | Thompson , 29 , said : ‘ I was feeling tired , suffering from cramp and with only five minutes to go I just decided to give it a whack . |
| 14 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 15 | Then I thought about those children and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 17 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 19 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 20 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 21 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 22 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 23 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 24 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 25 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 26 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 27 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 28 | When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’ |
| 29 | Melissa , detecting a spark of comradeship between them , decided to fan it a little . |
| 30 | The staff agreed the bird was too beautiful to be thrown out and decided to make it a mascot . |