Example sentences of "i decided " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 2 | I decided I did n't want to get married . |
| 3 | However , my presence was clearly unsettling its regular inhabitants so I decided it was time to make a move — and time to confront Charles Howard . |
| 4 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 5 | I can still see myself sitting there , relaxed and comforted by the warm drink , and then there was that moment when I decided I would resign . |
| 6 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 7 | I decided that the best thing to do was to go home . |
| 8 | I decided to keep up my flat in London and find fairly basic lodgings locally . |
| 9 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 10 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 11 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 12 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
| 13 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 14 | All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work . |
| 15 | Things could , I decided , be worse . |
| 16 | However , there was an entrance fee and I was beyond the stage of paying those so I decided to try and shelter somewhere else . |
| 17 | Although their house was still some distance away , I decided to finish the journey on foot . |
| 18 | I decided to try the ‘ little old lady who 's lost her ticket ’ routine , but I was rumbled immediately and directed politely but firmly to the station manager 's office . |
| 19 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
| 20 | I had to make a choice , and I decided to trust them . |
| 21 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 22 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 23 | I had started to feel very tired and I decided to try and find somewhere to have a sleep . |
| 24 | This would best be sorted out , I decided , by a cup of tea . |
| 25 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 26 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I decided I wanted a divorce . |
| 28 | I decided on an anagram , Neela . |
| 29 | I had to be rid of them , I decided . |
| 30 | I decided to offer him some food . |