Example sentences of "[pers pn] decide [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg Dyke and I decided to explore the possibility of sponsorship , which could well be of great value in London Weekend Television 's long-term future . |
| 2 | Anyway , one day me and my mates were all going to a party so I decided to do a home perm . |
| 3 | So I decided to do a bit of checking . |
| 4 | For this I decided to do a painting looking from my conservatory through the windows into the garden with two white chairs as the focal point . |
| 5 | Marx , at No. 13 with Take This Heart , admitted : ‘ I decided to cancel the show because it was pouring with rain and I knew I could be electrocuted . |
| 6 | I decided to join a slimming club when I was 20 and lost a stone , but I could n't stand going to the club . |
| 7 | I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman . |
| 8 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 9 | And in the interests of doing a good job I decided to take a look at the place myself . ’ |
| 10 | While my mother was away I decided to take a trip myself , and took refuge in my old home town , South Shields , now changed almost unrecognizably . |
| 11 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 12 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 13 | On my last full day in Sligo Town , I decided to take a taxi southeasterly into County Leitrim , and if possible see Woodbrook , the house brought to life by the able pen of David Thomson . |
| 14 | It was a relief to be in the open air again but , lacking a street-rap , I decided to take a taxi to the riverside and find my way about from there . |
| 15 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 16 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 17 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 18 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 19 | Benjamin wandered off , saying he wished to speak to Waldegrave , so I decided to take the air in the garden behind the chateau . |
| 20 | ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan . |
| 21 | I decided to take the road back to Les Glycines . |
| 22 | I decided to take the initiative . ’ |
| 23 | I decided to take the vodka up to Dosh and tell her it was white wine . |
| 24 | After a little consideration I decided to take the job on . |
| 25 | I decided to take the boat from Ireland and go up to Scotland . |
| 26 | I decided to take the bus to Strandhill , on Sligo Bay , and follow the road in a circle around Queen Maeve 's hill of Knocknarea . |
| 27 | He jumped brilliantly and I decided to put the pressure on to get away from them at the top of the hill . |
| 28 | He says : ‘ I decided to devise a method of calculating what interest I should have been charged and the bank was miles out . ’ |
| 29 | Although their house was still some distance away , I decided to finish the journey on foot . |
| 30 | So I decided to draw a line across the book and finish the last few pages when I got back . |