Example sentences of "they decided [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Doyle would do his best to protect her but what if they decided to search the place anyway ? |
| 2 | They decided to compare the money earned by the inventors of the Polaroid instant camera , the Catseye road stud , and the ring-pull can , with the reward reaped by Armstrong . |
| 3 | Even when , towards the end of the war , they decided to join the ILP , they embraced socialism , not as a radical break with previous assumptions , but as a natural extension of their pre-war New Liberal commitment to social reform and co-operation with labour . |
| 4 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 5 | They decided to sue the farm for negligence and today they won an historic test case at the County Court in Swindon . |
| 6 | This year everyone working for BT was sent a letter telling them the redundancy terms they were entitled to if they decided to leave the company voluntarily . |
| 7 | They decided to leave the box in the pump house until their next visit . |
| 8 | Kate and John liked here idea so much they decided to sell the pelmets in their shop . |
| 9 | So they decided to split the house in two . ’ |
| 10 | Terry Bunce , from the Flying Club , tells me that they have a wings night every year for the new people , and as it was also the 25th anniversary of the Ulster Aviation Society they decided to invite the veterans along . |
| 11 | It was perhaps with this in mind that they decided to spread the only rewards that the Government was likely to confer on the architects for all their work across as wide a field as was possible . |
| 12 | But although delegates opposed the Home Secretary 's proposals , they decided to put the motion on ice until they saw the strength of his final document on the matter , said Chris Burgess , secretary of the Suffolk Police Federation . |
| 13 | They decided to ask the County Education Committee to dismiss Outram at once , though there were disagreements among them over the rights and wrongs of sex education . |
| 14 | The couple decided against surgery but 15 years later the failure figure had dropped to only 20 pc and they decided to take the plunge . |
| 15 | As Macmillan later conceded , they decided to take the gamble early in 1955 of concluding a new alliance with Iraq under the umbrella of the emerging Baghdad Pact . |
| 16 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 17 | They decided to invoke the Water Resources Act of 1963 , which stated that in order to abstract water from a river to create power an annual licence would have to be purchased . |
| 18 | After viewing the outside and the wild , overgrown garden , they decided to explore the crumbling interior . |
| 19 | They decided to use the skills of their workers in making cloth and sacking from jute , which they imported from East Bengal , now Bangladesh . |
| 20 | They decided to use the media on their terms . |
| 21 | But on hearing of the situation in Llandudno they decided to assess the situation for themselves . |
| 22 | Love blossomed on a summer holiday in Morecambe and they decided to tie the knot . |
| 23 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 24 | They decided to attempt the Australia to England record on the return journey , and left Melbourne in fine weather on October 6 . |
| 25 | The reason they decided to send the girl away , but Irene had something else on her mind . ’ |
| 26 | They decided to make the effort . |
| 27 | Letting the first one pass they decided to hijack the next one . |
| 28 | When the Cordorys had finished landscaping their garden , they decided to add the finishing touches and brighten it up by designing and making their own garden furniture |
| 29 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 30 | They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me . |