Example sentences of "refused [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , there were a few pockets of stubborn resistance , where the Reiksguard refused to fall back in the face of certain defeat or where the thunder of Imperial arquebuses had shattered the Bretonnian infantry . |
| 2 | You see , I refused to go through with the wedding unless he promised to hand this over before we left the reception . ’ |
| 3 | When , in his thirties , he took driving lessons and passed his test Dorothy refused to go out in the car with him : ‘ I intend to live to a ripe old age , thank you very much . ’ |
| 4 | Darlington Council refused to go along with the plan but Miss Carter has revived the campaign this week as a planning application emerged wanting to put a food kiosk in the car park . |
| 5 | They refused to go home at the end of their shift and worked frantically to reach him . |
| 6 | All her concern seemed to be for Terry 's family , especially his mother , and Anne was even more surprised when Sarah refused to go back to the house with her . |
| 7 | He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me . |
| 8 | Alan Hepple ( Cairns Angling ) , at the next peg upstream , clinched runner-up spot taking 8–5–0 as the main shoal refused to wander far from the wear top . |
| 9 | Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas , and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel . |
| 10 | After the war he rejoined Robertson Hare for two more Ben Travers farces , Outrageous Fortune ( 1947 ) and Wild Horses ( 1952 ) , but though the heyday of the Aldwych farces was long gone , Lynn refused to give in to the changes of theatrical fashion . |
| 11 | It refused to give in to the authority of Rome and the Church . |
| 12 | Many of the human victims clearly left their homes feeling full of optimism , carrying bags of gold , pieces of jewellery and other valued objects , which they refused to abandon even at the point of death . |
| 13 | Supported by the Government Agent , Ridgeway refused to do so on the ground that it was commonly believed in the district that the men were guilty . |
| 14 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 15 | What is certain is that the creative use of recorders was a general expectation : the saintly and amiable Ahmad Bu Aziza , asked to record an account of Zuwaya trading , refused to do so on the spot , but made an appointment for two days later ‘ to give me time to make the poem ’ . |
| 16 | After further meetings Habyarimana , who refused to negotiate directly with the rebels , agreed to a ceasefire beginning on Oct. 24 , but this quickly collapsed . |
| 17 | In 1921 unemployment averaged nearly 14% , and it obstinately refused to clear up throughout the decade . |
| 18 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 19 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |