Example sentences of "decided [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The set had reached deuce when Mrs Beattie decided to go for the advantage point . |
| 32 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 33 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 34 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 35 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 36 | But then I started to think , well at this rate I am going to get pregnant , so I decided to go on the Pill , and that was the month I fell for Lucy . |
| 37 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 38 | Is he aware that anyone placed in that predicament today , and who decided to go on the dole so as to look after his sick parents , would not receive a single penny piece ? |
| 39 | We landed near the southeast tip of Ronay. defeated by the elements , we decided to go with the flow and explore this wild , windswept and uninhabited island on foot . |
| 40 | One landed in the street , very close , and we decided to go into the cellar . |
| 41 | Feeling restless and on edge , Luce decided to go into the garden . |
| 42 | Earlier , the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , a partner in the coalition government formed in December 1991 [ see p. 38662 ] , decided to remain within the government . |
| 43 | After running a CD-Rom pilot programme during 1989/90 , Abbey National decided to invest in the format . |
| 44 | Guinness stout was first imported from Liverpool in the late 1880s and by the early 1960s had become so popular that Guinness decided to brew in the country . |
| 45 | Instead she decided to wander round the house , looking into some of the hundred rooms that Mrs Medlock had told her about . |
| 46 | With most car makers chasing after baby-boomers , Buick decided to concentrate on the generation of buyers longing for ‘ traditional American elegance ’ , a euphemism for cars that appeal to upper-middle-income buyers in their 50s and 60s . |
| 47 | In fact , I decided to concentrate on the end of the overture , the ‘ allegro vivace ’ . |
| 48 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 49 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 50 | He decided to write to the minister instead of calling again . |
| 51 | The Committee decided to write to the Union leaders in Washington and ask for help . |
| 52 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
| 53 | Cleveland 's passenger transport sub-committee yesterday decided to write to the headteacher and chairman of governors at any school where there are continuing problems . |
| 54 | I decided to work on the problem at home . |
| 55 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 56 | He decided to come to the point . |
| 57 | Robert decided to come to the point . |
| 58 | I decided to struggle round the course , though , in my slowest time for a marathon of 3:30 ; 33 ’ , he said . |
| 59 | At school , I once had an argument with a boy from another form and we decided to meet in the break to settle it with our fists . |
| 60 | I decided to talk to the teachers in their year groups to elicit their personal views of questioning . |