Example sentences of "and decided it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Red Barrell company was losing its own Stag brewery , near Victoria Station , to redevelopment , and decided it was easier to buy another London brewery than build one . |
| 2 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
| 3 | We had tenants in the house and one day he went missing upstairs and found a bag of lipstick , eye-liner and face powder , and decided it would be a good idea to plaster his face with it . |
| 4 | ‘ But we now have a strong cash flow able to fund substantial development programmes , and decided it was time to tidy up the balance sheet . ’ |
| 5 | In 1979 , BOC changed its top management and decided it was no longer interested in Hall Automation . |
| 6 | The FAO organised a series of meetings between eminent experts , commissioned a mountain of reports , and decided it could help . |
| 7 | He remembered the dagger thrown during the banquet and decided it would be safer to return through the crowded town than venture into the marshy wooded countryside . |
| 8 | Delaney thought about it , and decided it did n't make sense , unless it was looking for something that it badly needed . |
| 9 | It was no answer , and it was a complete answer ; Edouard , recognising something of Jean-Paul in the implacability of the reply , hearing in it , too , –hat note of bland stubbornness with which some of his workmen in the Loire would resist argument and change with an age-old peasant resilience , sighed and decided it might be wiser to leave the subject there . |
| 10 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 11 | ‘ We thrashed it out and decided it would be quite wrong to burden him , on the threshold of his career . ’ |
| 12 | I gritted my teeth and decided it was n't such a one-sided deal after all . |
| 13 | Silicon Graphics Inc took one look at the ghastly quarterly figures from MIPS Computer Systems Inc — a $12.7m loss ( UX No 382 ) — and decided it had paid too much for MIPS : it will now pay 0.52 of a share for each MIPS , down from 0.61 of a share , the eventual price depending on what MIPS ’ share price is when the deal closes . |
| 14 | Then I started worrying and decided it was time to start acting normal . |
| 15 | Violet saw the man 's face harden and decided it was better to give way on this occasion . |
| 16 | The theory goes that the Americans were worried at the thought of Iraq breaking up into its component parts , and decided it would be safer if they left Saddam where he was , and even helped him to become stronger . |
| 17 | The man looked at her again , and decided it would be easier to do as she asked . |
| 18 | He had noticed the eyes of one or two French matrons stray wistfully to the tall , spectacularly handsome figure of his brother , and as the rickshaws bowled on side by side he darted a glance at him and decided it must be his new blond mustache that set him apart . |
| 19 | The College did a survey and decided it was not a good risk . |
| 20 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 21 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 22 | She yawned , and decided it was time to go to bed . |
| 23 | The publisher had made a decision , no doubt on sound commercial information , about the viability of the book as a course text and decided it should have a more restricted clientele who are in a position to buy a large-format , expensive paperback . |
| 24 | I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’ |
| 25 | Was it a two-way respect — had the two got their heads together and decided it might be beneficial to Travis to send him out of the country for a short while ? |
| 26 | But , upon reflection , they changed their minds and decided it would be the right thing to do . |
| 27 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |