Example sentences of "he refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday traders tracked down show chairman Alistair McCloud to his hotel room in Aylesbury , but he refused to answer the door . |
| 2 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 3 | He refused to disclose the identity of the politician . |
| 4 | He refused to disclose the identity of the politician . |
| 5 | Like Edward Boyle , but for very different reasons , he refused to take the oath but chose simply to affirm on being admitted to the Privy Council . |
| 6 | Captain Allan Border , as hard and uncompromising as any professional cricketer could be , was so shaken by the news of the loss of his right-hand man that he refused to take the field for the start of the final day 's play of the fourth Test . |
| 7 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 8 | Speaking through his solicitor he refused to join the debate over the identification of defendants in rape cases . |
| 9 | Diem proved a harsh dictator , using American aid to remove opposition , all of which depicted as Communist , and in 1956 he refused to hold the elections stipulated at Geneva . |
| 10 | In 1974 he was fined £75 and banned for three matches when he refused to leave the pitch after being sent off in a Manchester United match . |
| 11 | He refused to continue the legacy of executions which had been symptomatic of his father 's regime . |
| 12 | However , by the time she returned to the house Putt had locked himself inside his room and he refused to open the door to her . |
| 13 | And Mr Redwood clashed with MPs when he refused to lift the capping charge , imposed by David Hunt before he replaced him as Welsh Secretary . |
| 14 | He refused to publish the letter . |
| 15 | Although he refused to use the term " blockade " , Baker stated that the request had given US naval units the legal right to stop vessels carrying goods to and from Iraq . |
| 16 | He refused to use the vow ? ’ |
| 17 | However , Mr Christopher could take comfort from a statement by the Syrian foreign minister , Farouq al-Shara , at a joint news conference , in which he refused to link the return of all the deportees to a resumption of peace talks . |
| 18 | But he refused to compare the projected newspaper to anything on the present market , and insisted that only he could shape it . |
| 19 | When one of his blackboards fell onto his foot because Endill had taken the screws from it , he refused to let the class leave until he had discovered the culprit . |
| 20 | He refused to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome and in a letter to the Queen made a spirited defence of the repudiation of papal jurisdiction and the adoption of the mother tongue for worship . |
| 21 | As a Scot , Malky was married in the kilt , wearing his formal black jacket as he refused to acknowledge the hot temperatures of the holiday island . |
| 22 | He refused to attend the Salisbury parliament which ended on 1 November 1328 , but stayed nearby at Winchester with a group of his followers . |
| 23 | In 1970 he refused to broadcast the proposed South African tour . |
| 24 | He refused to allow the party access to his fund , and partly for this reason the Liberals were forced to accept a drastic reduction in the number of candidatures , from 513 in 1929 to 112 in 1931 , The condition of the Liberals was far more serious than that of Labour , for the Liberal party was beginning to lose its sense of identity and purpose ( and has still not fully recovered it ) . |
| 25 | He refused to allow the parson in , and locked the door . |
| 26 | With his keen sense of the complexity of situations , he refused to see the world or the Church in black-and-white terms . |
| 27 | Later the Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) was to maintain that this ceremony had gone out of use and he refused to perform the office for the English pope , Adrian IV , at Sutri in 1155 . |
| 28 | So he refused to call the Executive at all ! |
| 29 | He refused to accept the transfer , was dismissed and claimed redundancy pay . |
| 30 | That grant provoked a constituency row in December when he refused to accept the ‘ basic need ’ for building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's because there are empty desks in nearby county schools . |