Example sentences of "decided keep the " in BNC.

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1 Doug Laughton , with injuries to Emosi Koloto and Mike O'Neill , toyed with the idea of moving Tony Myler into the pack and playing Davies at stand-off , but decided to keep the Welshman at centre , where he will come into direct confrontation with Meninga .
2 For the time being , Mungo decided to keep the real answer to himself .
3 The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves .
4 I decided to keep the others at home .
5 They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me .
6 As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris .
7 I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself .
8 If a member of , say , the Hohenzollerns decided to keep the wolf from the door by taking up this particular trade , then royal here clearly would be true of the hatmaker ; i.e. the property ROYAL would apply to the E present to the mind of the speaker describing such an individual .
9 They were only too happy to oblige , but we decided to keep the sessions private . ’
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