Example sentences of "they refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We argued , but they refused to let the others go to the toilet . |
| 2 | They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking . |
| 3 | In October 1973 , the NIRC fined the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers £100,000 for contempt of court when they refused to obey the court 's order to call off a strike . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if they refused to publish the whole Report this would anger the teaching profession and provide the journalists with a sensational story . |
| 5 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 6 | The five workers were dismissed when they refused to accept the demotions . |
| 7 | He says they refused to accept the import licence because it was written in German . |
| 8 | They refused to make the payment and cancelled her direct debit . |
| 9 | In 1932 the government sent commissioners into Rotherham and Durham councils to take over their public assistance committees when they refused to operate the means test as rigorously as the centre wished . |
| 10 | They refused to sign the bond , arguing that to do so would prevent them from making any public protests . |
| 11 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 12 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 13 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |