Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] refused [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman is as wrong about that as he was in his assertion during the recent debate that I had refused to meet the regional Sports Council chairmen , which he knows to be untrue . |
| 2 | Irene Schwidurski missed all those , since for many years she has refused to observe the major public holidays of the GDR , 1 May and 7 October , the date the state was founded . |
| 3 | At first she had refused to wear the skirt , preferring her old jeans . |
| 4 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 5 | She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged . |
| 6 | There is also strong pressure for the same action in Armenia , where thousands of angry demonstrators surrounded the Supreme Soviet in Yerevan all night on Monday , because they had refused to abolish the party 's leading role in the republic . |
| 7 | They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid . |
| 8 | They have refused to debate the budget until the government calls Mr Nakasone to testify under oath about his role in the Recruit affair . |
| 9 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 10 | While exhorting the judiciary to use custodial sentences only for the really wicked , who commit serious offences , they have refused to compromise the supposed independence of the judiciary by interfering directly in the judicial process . |
| 11 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 12 | Will he also tell us why he has refused to adopt the alternative package approach , involving a mixture of public transport and road schemes , that has been advocated by local authorities in the west midlands ? |
| 13 | Unfortunately , he had refused to take the bet since it was a heck of a lot of money in those days , was fifty quid . |
| 14 | Silkin explained in a press interview that he had refused to enforce the law against the postal workers ' trade union because he feared that the action would precipitate a postal strike . |
| 15 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 16 | Coetzee was quoted as telling the Johannesburg Sunday Times that he had refused to accept the parcel , in October 1990 , because of the duty he was asked to pay . |