Example sentences of "[pers pn] decided that the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that the best thing to do was to go home . |
| 2 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 3 | I decided that the only thing to do was to put my thoughts frankly to Sir Geoffrey . |
| 4 | We decided that the best thing to do was to hide the bicycles and the panniers separately — which was sensible — and then take refuge with the prisoners beyond the embankment until the storm was over — which was not . |
| 5 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 6 | He decided that the best thing for him to do was to leave as soon as possible , before other people arrived and the situation became very complicated . |