Example sentences of "[pron] decide [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 2 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 3 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 4 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 5 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
| 6 | Knowing that this particular subordinate is sensitive to criticism , you decide to reprimand him in the open-plan office where many of his colleagues at neighbouring desks will hear what is going on . |
| 7 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 9 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 10 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 11 | However , we decided to try it with the food and tucked into some quite outstanding starters , including terrine of foie gras with wild mushrooms and some grilled bites of red mullet with caviar which positively leapt into the mouth . |
| 12 | We 've a right to govern our own country , and we 've a right not to be told by other countries that we should be split into two , that we 're two different nations because they decided to split us down the middle . |
| 13 | Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule . |
| 14 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 15 | Like most families the Keiths and Mackenzies had brought picnics , and they decided to have theirs in the paddock where the Highland Games were being held . |
| 16 | Jealous voices reminded the Count of this again and again ; eventually he decided to put her to the test . |
| 17 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 18 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | He decided to telephone her over the weekend , by which time the case could be finished and he would be able to invite her to dinner with reasonable hope that they would be uninterrupted . |
| 20 | It was raining and he decided to drop her outside the front door , sheltered as it was by the portico with two columns . |
| 21 | ‘ Nobody except me that is , ’ I added hastily in case he decided to throw me in the dungeons . |