Example sentences of "decided [to-vb] it a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 2 | Phoebe decided to give it a go . |
| 3 | I did n't really fancy it myself but decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 4 | Then I thought about those children and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 5 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 7 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 8 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 9 | Thompson , 29 , said : ‘ I was feeling tired , suffering from cramp and with only five minutes to go I just decided to give it a whack . |
| 10 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 11 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 12 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 13 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 14 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 15 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 16 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 17 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 18 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 19 | The staff agreed the bird was too beautiful to be thrown out and decided to make it a mascot . |