Example sentences of "and decided [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . )
2 It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves .
3 I do n't like doing intarsia knitting but I do like ‘ picture front ’ jumpers and decided that it was possible to do them by using the slip stitch Fair Isle method .
4 She considered telephoning Laura , and Kitty , both of whom were long on sympathy and short on cash — so strange that Peter 's orthodox solicitor father should have left his widow quite as poorly provided for as Anna 's unconventional one had left Laura — and decided that it would be unfair .
5 Molly remembered the child in pantaloons and decided that it must have been bought by Sandra and not Buck Kettering .
6 After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes .
7 Justice Rutledge proceeded to examine the evil which the statute was designed to cure and decided that it encompassed people outside the traditional common law classification of an employee .
8 ‘ I thought about it and decided that it would have been very awkward both for my father and everyone else , not least myself .
9 He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered .
10 The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions .
11 Notice that we have considered every figure given in the question and decided whether it is relevant or not and which category it falls into .
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