Example sentences of "refuse [verb] so and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clearly regards the management of the mound as his own particular responsibility and expertise , for if the female comes to the mound to lay at a time when opening it might cause a dangerous fluctuation in its temperature , he will refuse to do so and drives her away . |
| 2 | If the innocent party is the buyer and he has not paid then he may simply refuse to do so and return the goods if he has already received them . |
| 3 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 4 | Most came to terms with the constraints of the existing order but a radical wing refused to do so and dreamed of a society run on rational lines laid down by acknowledged experts ( themselves ) — a society they dubbed ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 5 | However , the Soviet pilot of the aircraft chartered to transport the missiles refused to do so and it was not until mid-February that a US aircraft set out . |
| 6 | He refused to do so and was suspended . |