Example sentences of "decide [to-vb] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Master of Ceremonies was Branch Chairman Malcolm Cork , Booth White , who has decided to stand down from the position . |
| 2 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 3 | Some Tory MPs believe that Mr Lamont may decide to step down in the face of the unrelenting doubts about his future at the Treasury . |
| 4 | He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself . |
| 5 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 6 | Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went . |
| 7 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |