Example sentences of "refused [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese government had indicated a willingness to provide " economic co-operation " to compensate for its colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but refused to accept any liability for the post-1945 period . |
| 2 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 3 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 4 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 5 | The sales department refused to accept any cars from the factory which did not meet rigid quality guidelines . |
| 6 | However , the five main opposition parties refused to accept any role in his government , whose main task was thought to be to supervise the shift to multiparty politics and the adoption of a new constitution during 1991 . |
| 7 | But Tepilit refused to accept any suggestions that he had not killed the man deliberately . |
| 8 | Mr Jacobson refused to answer any questions following the hearing , except to say he has n't seen his brother-in-law . |
| 9 | The couple were ordered to attend the inquest but refused to answer any questions on the advice of their solicitors . |
| 10 | The Dwarfs retreated from the field claiming that honour was satisfied and refused to answer any Elf petitions for the return of the crown . |
| 11 | Holmes , for example , whose textbook ‘ Principles of physical geology ’ was used by generations of geology students , once had a paper rejected by the Geological Society of London , and thereafter refused to submit any papers to any of that body 's journals , throughout a very long and prolific career . |
| 12 | But he refused to give any money at all for Gabriel-Ernest 's memorial . |
| 13 | He refused to give any interviews to the press about the matter and in September , three months before the opening of The Cocktail Party in New York , he asked Sherek to try to ensure that there would be no attempt to obstruct the production . |
| 14 | A spokesman at the hospital refused to give any information as to Mr Keane 's condition . |
| 15 | Philby refused to give any details claiming it involved ‘ operational matters ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps if she flatly refused to give any details … |
| 17 | She refused to have any pets in the house , but even the hardest of hearts need some discharge of sentiment . |
| 18 | Since the Japanese and Taiwanese refused to supply any data on the albacore drift-net fishery , it was hardly surprising that no information on incidental dolphin catches had come to light . |
| 19 | The revenue repaid the building society the moneys with interest from 31 July 1987 but refused to pay any interest in respect of the period up to the date of judgment . |
| 20 | The Community began by taking the line that federations were clearly a more advanced form of government than nation states : it refused to countenance any challenge to ‘ the integrity of Yugoslavia ’ and , under the presidency of Luxembourg , made clear to the Slovenes that small countries were not viable in the new Europe . |
| 21 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 22 | She refused to collect any welfare benefits , saying that she was n't going to have DHSS snoopers visiting the caravan to see if she and Neil were sleeping together . |
| 23 | Rome refused to take any part in these proceedings , except by unofficial observers . |
| 24 | ‘ He knew and he refused to take any part . ’ |
| 25 | At the time Professor Girdwood 's association ( the prime aim of this charitable , voluntary body is to ‘ promote the interests of donors and pass their worries to Government ’ ) refused to take any part in this move for overdue reform . |
| 26 | ’ Carco asked if he could buy a painting , ‘ The Standing Nude ’ , and Zbo was so overcome with emotion because Carco appreciated Modigliani that he refused to take any money for it . |
| 27 | She stalwartly refused to take any drugs , once again arguing that she could not hold herself responsible if the baby were born deformed . |
| 28 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 29 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 30 | Also they refused to make any press statement on the study , and did not print sufficient copies of the report for adequate distribution on the pretext of financial difficulties , yet promptly hired a panel of consultants and academics to conduct a study of the Alliance 's study . |