Example sentences of "refused [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |
| 2 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |
| 3 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 5 | When Terry succumbed Safi refused to leave him off the chain at night . |
| 6 | Burma 's generals have condemned the laureates ' mission as interference and refused to let them into the country . |
| 7 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 8 | And so , to punish Labour , Fitt refused to back them in the vote of confidence . |
| 9 | The clerk of the court refused to supply him with the names of the lay justices who had decided it , pursuant to a policy which was being adopted by an increasing number of magistrates courts of declining to identify justices to the public or the press . |
| 10 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 11 | He refused to take her to the pub to have a drink , explaining that he did not want to hurt Jayne , who would not approve of his energy being spent on anything other than skating . |