Example sentences of "they decided [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Doyle would do his best to protect her but what if they decided to search the place anyway ? |
| 2 | They decided to compare the money earned by the inventors of the Polaroid instant camera , the Catseye road stud , and the ring-pull can , with the reward reaped by Armstrong . |
| 3 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 4 | Even when , towards the end of the war , they decided to join the ILP , they embraced socialism , not as a radical break with previous assumptions , but as a natural extension of their pre-war New Liberal commitment to social reform and co-operation with labour . |
| 5 | They decided to sue the farm for negligence and today they won an historic test case at the County Court in Swindon . |
| 6 | This year everyone working for BT was sent a letter telling them the redundancy terms they were entitled to if they decided to leave the company voluntarily . |
| 7 | They decided to leave the box in the pump house until their next visit . |
| 8 | Kate and John liked here idea so much they decided to sell the pelmets in their shop . |
| 9 | So they decided to split the house in two . ’ |
| 10 | Terry Bunce , from the Flying Club , tells me that they have a wings night every year for the new people , and as it was also the 25th anniversary of the Ulster Aviation Society they decided to invite the veterans along . |
| 11 | But although delegates opposed the Home Secretary 's proposals , they decided to put the motion on ice until they saw the strength of his final document on the matter , said Chris Burgess , secretary of the Suffolk Police Federation . |
| 12 | They decided to ask the County Education Committee to dismiss Outram at once , though there were disagreements among them over the rights and wrongs of sex education . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As Macmillan later conceded , they decided to take the gamble early in 1955 of concluding a new alliance with Iraq under the umbrella of the emerging Baghdad Pact . |
| 15 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 16 | They decided to invoke the Water Resources Act of 1963 , which stated that in order to abstract water from a river to create power an annual licence would have to be purchased . |
| 17 | They decided to use the skills of their workers in making cloth and sacking from jute , which they imported from East Bengal , now Bangladesh . |
| 18 | They decided to use the media on their terms . |
| 19 | But on hearing of the situation in Llandudno they decided to assess the situation for themselves . |
| 20 | Love blossomed on a summer holiday in Morecambe and they decided to tie the knot . |
| 21 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 22 | They decided to attempt the Australia to England record on the return journey , and left Melbourne in fine weather on October 6 . |
| 23 | The reason they decided to send the girl away , but Irene had something else on her mind . ’ |
| 24 | They decided to make the effort . |
| 25 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 26 | They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me . |
| 27 | Coleridge and Southey may have crossed the River Parrett at Bridgwater in order to reach Shurton ; more probably , like Thomas De Quincey thirteen years later , they decided to shorten the journey by using the river ferry at Combwich Reach . |
| 28 | They decided to bypass the col and descend directly to the glacier , cutting bucket seats in the snow to brace themselves as they lowered Venables on the rope . |
| 29 | So they decided to build the camp there . |
| 30 | So they decided to build the warehouse themselves — which they managed to do for C$10,000 . |