Example sentences of "decided not " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided not to do teas , you may remember . |
| 2 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 3 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 4 | He decided not to appeal in order to highlight what he regards as the absurdity of the law in light of the increasing acceptability of direct and indirect contacts between Israelis and the PLO . |
| 5 | The lecturer , Martin Wood , counts equally successful those students of the courses he has given since 1984 , at Leith 's School of Food and Wine in London , who subsequently decided not to open restaurants . |
| 6 | The aid agencies working there decided not to publicise the report , which has since been backed up by an internal report by Robert Ash , a senior UNHCR official . |
| 7 | Quickly she decided not to go into the garden ; instead she would climb the nearby tower block and see her garden from above . |
| 8 | He decided not to go for repair grants . |
| 9 | In September the DPP decided not to bring corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail after four people died in October 1987 when a river bridge at Glanrhyd , Dyfed , Wales , over which a train was travelling despite a red flood alert , collapsed . |
| 10 | The Africanists , whose ideological sympathies lie with the PAC , decided not to attend , asserting they had not been invited to serve on the convening committee . |
| 11 | ‘ The praesidium decided not to support the 1990 budget and the party is against the ( government 's ) housing programme . |
| 12 | I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’ |
| 13 | She was sounding terse and McLeish decided not to ask her any more details over the transatlantic phone . |
| 14 | He was aware that he was not managing to sound exactly like a senior officer making a recent arrival feel at home , but decided not to add any further riders to his invitation . |
| 15 | McLeish decided not to expand , and rose to go , conscious that it was one-thirty a.m . |
| 16 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 17 | Like Mr Rocard in 1988 , Mrs Cresson decided not to call for a vote of confidence on her new government 's programme , outlined to parliament on May 22nd . |
| 18 | Other big potential buyers , like the Daily Telegraph and Carlton Communications , a video-duplication firm , agreed , and decided not to bid either . |
| 19 | So Dr Schwitters decided not to pick L* . |
| 20 | Many would-be parents decided not to risk it , and waited until 1967 . |
| 21 | He toyed with the idea of telling her she was n't woman enough for him , but decided not to . |
| 22 | Nigel was really unwell at the last minute with a bad bout of flu , but decided not to cancel . |
| 23 | She had a plan of her own for the visit , though she decided not to tell Charity about that at this stage . |
| 24 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 25 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 26 | Since he could just make out where he was going , he decided not to use the front light , which in any case would be bound to draw attention to him . |
| 27 | Mungo decided not to mention the coincidence of the bird 's head found by Rose McGarry 's body . |
| 28 | She decided not to eat any more of the long squishy , chocolate-coated tube she had ordered . |
| 29 | Watson , wondering whether to pass it on , quickly concluded that North was ‘ playing a game of being important and secretive ’ , and decided not to bother . |
| 30 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |