Example sentences of "[noun] he decided [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 3 | It was at this point he decided to give the youths in his squad a fling . |
| 4 | In the process he decided to verify the predictions of the British physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill ( who won a Nobel prize in 1922 , and died only five years ago ) . |
| 5 | In that taproom he decided to push the matter further and Catesby gave him his chance . |
| 6 | Oswy was probably unable to follow in detail the abstruse arguments put forward , but in the end he decided to accept the Roman practice , on the grounds that at the gates of heaven the keys are held by St Peter , and against him he would not contend . |
| 7 | Halfway through the trip he decided to make the mouthful even more exciting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |