Example sentences of "[adv] refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | England team manager Micky Stewart fuelled the controversy at the end of the Cornhill Test series when he pointedly refused to clear the Pakistan bowlers over their methods of making the ball swing . |
| 2 | Although he always treated Richard Baxter with the utmost politeness and civility , he nevertheless refused to embrace the Gospel himself and kept his family and servants away from the meetings . |
| 3 | This startling routine delighted the audience so much that they usually refused to let the show continue until an encore had been performed — often two . |
| 4 | Downing Street yesterday refused to dismiss the possibility , although the Government may assess the impact of the white paper before deciding on whether to proceed . |
| 5 | He still refused to let the old woman call in any other doctor , and set his own leg , though not quite perfectly ; hence the limp . |
| 6 | It was rejected out of hand by President Bush , who also refused to include the US Navy in conventional arms control agreements . |
| 7 | He symbolically refused to sign the first Annual Report to the Minister with the traditional ‘ Your obedient servant ’ , preferring the more neutral ‘ Yours faithfully ’ . |
| 8 | She simply refused to let the matter rest where it.was . |
| 9 | He simply refused to recognise the new administration . |
| 10 | He even refused to let the Shah have the keys to the personal car he kept in Rome . |
| 11 | In 1595 , she even refused to allow the publication of the predestinarian Lambeth Articles , although they had been approved by her favoured archbishop , John Whitgift . |
| 12 | The CFDT then refused to sign the agreements and called for intensification of the strike movement . |
| 13 | He says he almost refused to accept the card because he had never come across one before . |
| 14 | Thus , although Mary 's first House of Commons readily accepted the restoration of Catholic doctrine and liturgy , it initially refused to repeal the Henrician anti-papal legislation , and it delayed the reconciliation with Rome until Pope Julius III had secured the future of secularized ecclesiastical property by guaranteeing the rights of existing lay holders . |
| 15 | He allegedly refused to treat the boy , insisting that he should be taken to hospital . |
| 16 | Mr. Kenealy then said that he had reliable information that patients ' heads were verminous , but he absolutely refused to divulge the sources of the complaints , in which case , the committee said , they would take no further action . |
| 17 | She too refused to accept the justice of the imprisonment . |