Example sentences of "[vb past] chosen [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just annoyed that he 'd chosen to do it while I 'd been away . |
| 2 | He wanted to go back and find that man , the horse-rider , the man he 'd chosen to die . |
| 3 | But more vexing still was why it should be that particular face , of all those in her memory 's catalogue , she 'd chosen to configure from that of a perfect stranger . |
| 4 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 5 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 6 | She learned to pray at two or three , and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven . |
| 7 | Her superiors in pastoral studies had , on the whole , been of the opinion it was not merely officious but often dangerous to move a drunk from the place he had chosen to lie down into one where he had not . |
| 8 | George had chosen to ask for Mr Nightingale because he had already established that connection . |
| 9 | He indicated the tiny mini dress , backless and with halter neck , which she had chosen to wear because the day was almost insufferably hot . |
| 10 | The early morning sun was already gathering heat as they left the ship behind , anchored in the now-distant bay below , and she was glad she had chosen to wear the thin jade silk blouse with her white jeans . |
| 11 | She had chosen to wear a simple but beautifully styled full-length dress in pale amber crêpe-de-Chine , and because the evenings were decidedly more chilly now as the ship headed north she slipped the matching jacket over her bare shoulders . |
| 12 | And she had chosen to die as she had lived . |
| 13 | But he had chosen to serve his womenfolk with constancy . |
| 14 | This afternoon Colin French declined to explain why he had chosen to exploit this loophole . |
| 15 | IN the thinking of the early Church , anyone who married could never be completely devoted to God because they had chosen to pledge part of their love and loyalty to their spouse . |
| 16 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 17 | When de Lattre had visited Washington in September 1951 it was this theme , ‘ the ability of communist China to invade Indo-China and South-East Asia ’ that the State Department had chosen to stress in their briefing for President Truman and their up-beat assessment of the General who had transformed ‘ an army beset with defeatism into a force which has since won every major engagement against the communist forces ’ . |
| 18 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 19 | 169 all out gave West Indies a win by an innings and 79 runs , the first time they had beaten England by an innings at home since 1934–5 ; by coincidence , it was the first time an England captain had chosen to field first in the Caribbean since Wyatt did in the same series . |
| 20 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 21 | He declared that he had already " expressed very clearly the need for a rapid , profound and complete democratization " , and had chosen to leave because there was " no possibility for legal opposition in Albania " . |
| 22 | Although this change in policy meant that unemployed older workers could receive a one-fifth increase in their weekly benefit income , the majority in our study had chosen to retire early before November 1981 . |
| 23 | In all , only 24 incumbent legislators lost their seats , although an unprecedented number of incum±bents — many of whom were implicated in various congressional scandals — had chosen to retire or else had been defeated in the primary elections . |
| 24 | He held her arm lightly just below the cobalt blue cape sleeve , and steered her through a small group of women who had chosen to prolong their discourse by the door . |
| 25 | At Kylie 's side for that crucial trip was the man her father Ron had chosen to oversee her career . |
| 26 | And sure enough , there her neighbour was , standing half dressed in his yard , with both fists clenched and raised to the skies as he demanded to know of his God why He had chosen to take his wife . |
| 27 | The girl had chosen to take her seat in the one spot from which the opening of the inner door would afford her brief glimpses into the prince 's audience-chamber . |
| 28 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 29 | The bench he had chosen to sit on was part of the inlet system which housed the vents from which the hot steam was emitted . |
| 30 | Oblivious of the equivocal nature of her remarks , Gwendolen was hoping that Angelina , with whom Sir Thomas had chosen to sit at a table for two only , would take due note of her omission of the ‘ sir ’ . |