Example sentences of "decided [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 I asked her to go to bed and I decided to search for the monster .
2 I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like .
3 I decided to go for a walk westward along the side of the fjord .
4 In the afternoon , feeling bored , Stirling decided to go for a walk .
5 We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales .
6 Anna was immersed in a game with Edward under the watchful eye of Miss Fitch , who gave Ruth no welcome : so she decided to go for a walk .
7 Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) .
8 Having always liked the idea of living in the country , Geoff decided to go for a country-style kitchen .
9 Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections .
10 He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll .
11 Bunny , Martin and the other two girls decided to go for a meal in a Swedish restaurant Bunny said he knew in Lisson Grove , the Dead Zone between the Edgware Road and Lord 's Cricket Ground .
12 A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular .
13 He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer .
14 Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl .
15 The set had reached deuce when Mrs Beattie decided to go for the advantage point .
16 As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me .
17 I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation .
18 Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude .
19 I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row .
20 I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out !
21 He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow .
22 Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep .
23 She stopped in the shelter of a stone wall , drank a cup of coffee , consulted the map and decided to aim for a twenty-five mile circuit which would bring her out , eventually , at the foot of the steep hill near the village .
24 The long-standing US-Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program , which the National Science Foundation and the Japanese government pay for , decided to look for a cheaper way of doing things .
25 However , before the electron microscope was available , in fact in 1937 , Andrade and Tsien decided to look for the cracks by the method of decoration , using of course an optical microscope .
26 Having got the company going , he decided to look for an accountant .
27 Undeterred by the Challenge 's ‘ toughest ever ’ billing , she immediately decided to apply for a place .
28 He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper .
29 Having just had a row with the acerbic Redwood , Kelly decided to apply for the job as assistant to whoever the new paper appointed as their Belfast representative .
30 But delegates decided to opt for a scientific review of all amendments to the annex .
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