Example sentences of "refused [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , a harassed Yorkshire division secretary Eric Hoyland ‘ up to my neck in rearranging the finals , ’ refused to comment on the ABA decision . |
| 2 | Corden refused to comment on the manager Frank Gray 's position . |
| 3 | The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment , given permission to set up monitoring stations on the peninsula in 1989 , refused to comment on the radio report but confirmed that " life expectancy on the Kola Peninsula is approximately 42 years " . |
| 4 | Buckingham Palace refused to elaborate on the holiday arrangements , saying they were ‘ totally private ’ . |
| 5 | Both Croatia and Slovenia on Jan. 15 refused to comply with the State Presidency 's order , and on Jan. 17 it was reported that republican leaders had met to co-ordinate resistance to a feared military crackdown . |
| 6 | Kellner says one possible explanation is that the 20 per cent of the electorate who refused to respond to the exit polls were disproportionately Tory , or that some voters lied , or both . |
| 7 | Since Iran refused to pay for the TOW missiles until they were delivered a Saudi Arabian middleman called Adnan Khashoggi , whose social lifestyle and divorce proceedings help fill the pages of the tabloid press , put up a bridging loan of $5 million . |
| 8 | The plaintiff 's insurers , the defendants , refused to pay on the insurance policy , arguing that there was no theft . |