Example sentences of "decided to take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thanks to an abandoned mutt , a whole family decided to take the slow boat home |
| 3 | My brother , a dog lover , whose own elderly dog was being cared for back in England , decided to take the pups home to the family . |
| 4 | Ruth 's hair was out of shape and did n't do justice to her strong bone structure so stylist Caroline Stacey , also from Keith Hall the Hairdressers , but from their Leicester salon , decided to take the weight out of the back leaving the top longer . |
| 5 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 6 | To save time , he decided to take the bicycle with him across the fields so that he could ride it on the smoother sections . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most importantly , Barnes decided to take the inquiry across to the other side of the Bristol Channel . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , we decided to take the early plane after all . ’ |
| 10 | Here we faced a familiar dilemma : the Department of Transport and the county council were seeking to improve a trunk road and , seeing a large area of parkland , decided to take the new road through the park , cutting off a large swathe near the main entrance gates . |
| 11 | There was an investigation and we decided to take the records off sale altogether . ’ |
| 12 | I decided to take the boat from Ireland and go up to Scotland . |
| 13 | After a little consideration I decided to take the job on . |
| 14 | Nancy and I decided to take the two . |
| 15 | When we were all sat down and Mrs F was serving out the stew , I ignored Vern and decided to take the situation into my own hands . |
| 16 | It Germanised the few Polish street , town and place names , undertook propagandist ‘ research work ’ on historical subjects , supervised the Germanising of family names among those Poles who decided to take the plunge into German identity , took down Polish-language warning notices about venereal diseases from public toilets and instituted a system of bonuses for all teachers and civil servants prepared to move and settle in the eastern provinces . |
| 17 | When twelve women who professed to be virgins were found , only two would swear an oath to that effect , but the executors decided to take the women 's word for it . |
| 18 | Despite being told he might die , he decided to take the risk . |
| 19 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 20 | Of course , being the determined woman she was , Nora decided to take the bull by the horns and organise things for herself . |
| 21 | That morning , as it was dry under-foot , Will Simpson decided to take the short cut . |
| 22 | As he repositioned the pins , she suddenly decided to take the opportunity to mention Constance and her plans for her . |
| 23 | The couple decided against surgery but 15 years later the failure figure had dropped to only 20 pc and they decided to take the plunge . |
| 24 | ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan . |
| 25 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 26 | After working seven days a week for three years , the lease on the premises in London expired and Bill and Kath decided to take the really big gamble of buying their first factory on the Manor Trading Estate at South Benfleet , moving there in 1960 . |
| 27 | Instead of ignoring the Alamo and its small garrison , and pressing on to fight the main Texan army , Santa Anna decided to take the Alamo by storm . |
| 28 | The Council decided to take the initiative . |
| 29 | But when a Scottish defector from Edwards army arrived with reports of the miserable morale of the English and exhorted him with the words ‘ Now 's the time and now 's the hour ’ , he again decided to take the initiative . |
| 30 | The authorities decided to take the orangs by force , and on 31 October 1991 , armed soldiers carried out a dawn raid on the house and garage — where they were met by more than a hundred students . |