Example sentences of "decide [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Days later , when I had decided to find myself a less cushy job , someone telephoned me and said , –You are ruining my life . ’
2 I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it .
3 In any case , I had already decided to give her a refund and a-new drier .
4 Despite these minor domestic headaches , it was decided to give him a special birthday treat of a guided tour of the Chubb Factory to decide exactly how all those interesting little gadgets actually work and no doubt to take away a few tips as well .
5 ‘ So you 've decided to give them an airing ? ’
6 So this being his last free Wednesday for a while , he had decided to give himself a treat .
7 However , she has decided to give herself a year to change .
8 Even as the clamour grows for Mansell to reverse his decision to quit , the public hero has decided to give it a go in America .
9 As there are many variations to this recipe , I have decided to give you a list of ingredients to experiment with until you find the one you like best .
10 It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! )
11 ‘ She must have decided to run herself a bath — I ca n't believe it .
12 His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day .
13 ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said .
14 They had decided to call it a day , that was all .
15 Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache .
16 It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu .
17 The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’
18 It seemed the letter writer had decided to pay him a visit .
19 As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side .
20 You 'd better let us look after you now , ’ or ‘ We 've talked it over , and we 've decided to offer you a home with us . ’
21 I think it was also about that time when it was decided to phase our the old term of Customs Waterguard for the uniformed branch , with Waterguard becoming a dirty word .
22 At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art .
23 ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’
24 And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing .
25 ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’
26 It is only when you take the courage to look at yourself and your life — without judgement , without prejudice — that you can decide to make it a new life .
27 Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep .
28 She decided to tease him a little .
29 Shelley decided to tease her a little .
30 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 .
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