Example sentences of "decided [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.

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1 He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for .
2 So I decided to go on to the council .
3 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 .
4 He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee .
5 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 .
6 He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself .
7 I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little .
8 I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time .
9 So I decided to go back to the ship again , and get some more things .
10 There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters .
11 When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom .
12 Later , when they realised Japan 's true intentions , Aung San and the small Burmese army , backed by an underground movement , decided to come over to the British , a very courageous step when you realise their numbers , and their limited arms .
13 I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message .
14 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 .
15 While one crew got through , Jugoslavs Rodic/Kvezenic decided to retreat back to the jetty , leaving marshal John Griffiths to pacify an irate violence-threatening angler .
16 Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment .
17 Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year .
18 There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature .
19 ‘ Harry had a chip shop in Bradford and it was because of his wife 's health that he decided to move out to the Dales in 1928 , ’ said Richard Richardson , Harry Ramsden 's marketing director .
20 Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place .
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