Example sentences of "refused [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson . |
| 2 | The BMA and its Chairman , John Marks , refused even to come to the department to talk about the details of the scheme and vigorously campaigned against us . |
| 3 | Small wonder perhaps that many buried their heads in the sand and refused even to think about the event until the last possible moment . |
| 4 | Oldfield refused even to speak to the person he had once idolised . |
| 5 | By 1907 rheumatoid arthritis had almost crippled her and she suffered long periods of inactivity , but refused either to move to the comfort of Duke Town or to return to Britain . |