Example sentences of "decided to have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This year , the Year of the McLachlan Photographs , Nottingham police decided to have a field day .
2 I have n't seen Billy in years and I do n't know why he decided to have a night on the tiles on Sunday .
3 I then decided to have a work-out on the weights .
4 She decided to have a bit of fun therefore — at their expense .
5 ‘ We decided to have a rota for the beds as well , ’ he went on , still inspecting the mushrooms .
6 The owners decided to have a depot ship to house strike breakers .
7 Papa decided to have a game-park . ’
8 Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower .
9 After we had rescued these people we decided to have a look at some other floods .
10 On my way to the pay ‘ phone near the gents , I noticed the door to the back room was open , and for some reason I decided to have a look .
11 Veterans of many WAAF reunions , the group decided to have a holiday together , and with kind help from Richard Branson and Virgin Airlines , spent two weeks in Florida .
12 I decided to have a year off myself and played a bare minimum to remind myself of which end of the club to hold .
13 I decided to have a rest , then visit No. 6 Commando .
14 They were so beautiful that I decided to have a go at growing them .
15 After years of thinking that I could not draw or paint , I decided to have a go .
16 The removal of the tumour made no difference to my legs , so thinking the misplaced disc might after all be the cause , they decided to have a go at that .
17 ‘ We decided to have a go and were a little surprised when Leeds agreed to the deal . ’
18 You know I , I 've got a big laurel and it was coming right over what we call the roundabout so I decided to have a go at it .
19 Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight .
20 I decided to have a farm sale after Uncle went , and put up all the livestock for auction .
21 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
22 Priding themselves on being modern-minded about such things , they subjected passion to planning and decided to have a spring baby .
23 Passing Bengie Pool , where Brora 's largest salmon , a fish of 45lb , had been caught , John Wilson noticed a good fish rising and decided to have a throw at it .
24 They decided to have a meeting .
25 Billy also decided to have a beer .
26 ‘ So I decided to have a haircut .
27 That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke .
28 One woman ‘ decided to have a baby so I would n't be lonely in the house on my own and there was not much chance of me getting a job ’ .
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