Example sentences of "he decided [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to leave the tower and seek him out . |
| 2 | In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow . |
| 3 | He decided to use the letter ; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary . |
| 4 | When high rents and falling prices threatened the farm with insolvency he decided to use the experience he had obtained with domestic animals by training to become a veterinary surgeon . |
| 5 | The English , English and not American English or German English and er this part of a massive project been undertaken from the British Isles , in Suffolk it 's already been to Thomas More 's High School to report in lessons , here a , he decided to use the highway facility |
| 6 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 7 | Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one-liner style of stand-up and get rid of his immortal catch-phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus ! ’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . |
| 8 | In that taproom he decided to push the matter further and Catesby gave him his chance . |
| 9 | In that fleeting instant of time , he decided to block the high attack , and counter-attack the lower . |
| 10 | Refusing to be beaten , he decided to tackle the problem head on ; reminding himself that otherwise he would spend the rest of his life wondering . |
| 11 | He decided to turn the pressure on the Russian . |
| 12 | The man she told was a printer at the Post and after sharing the news with his colleagues he decided to let the police in on it too . |
| 13 | When it started raining , however , he decided to spend the rest of the night in the shelter of the church , and finish his planting in the morning . |
| 14 | He decided to spend the last hour at the local pub . |
| 15 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 16 | To save time , he decided to take the bicycle with him across the fields so that he could ride it on the smoother sections . |
| 17 | Despite being told he might die , he decided to take the risk . |
| 18 | He decided to treat the movie as a learning experience . |
| 19 | He decided to repeat the heating exercise in an attempt to force out the energy from the graphite . |
| 20 | But that did n't satisfy Mr Major when he decided to sue the New Statesman and Scallyway for their reports . |
| 21 | That was when he decided to put the two of us together , to share the presentation . |
| 22 | He decided to split the party , sending Mayne to attack this new target , while he dealt with Sirte itself . |
| 23 | He decided to test the theory further by examining the background of more than 17,000 Scottish-based oil workers . |
| 24 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |
| 25 | So he decided to give the council a sermon when he blessed its monthly meeting . |
| 26 | Mr Richter was so smitten by Mr Cliburn 's talent , and so bored by the competition ( 1958 was the last time he ever served as judge for anything ) , that he decided to give the talented American pianist the top score of 25 for everything and all the other contestants a zero for everything . |
| 27 | It was at this point he decided to give the youths in his squad a fling . |
| 28 | He decided to explore the lesion to establish the diagnosis by taking a biopsy . |
| 29 | P-E had on occasions recommended clients to Lyn Brua , an American who had founded the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , and it was through that connection he decided to join the executive search industry . |
| 30 | After Jordanhill , his career trajectory took a different path to most when he decided to join the Colonial Education Service in what was then Northern Rhodesia , now Zambia . |