Example sentences of "refused go " in BNC.

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1 Realising that the take-off would involve an element of risk , the Nimbus pilot had , in fact , refused to go at first , and had asked for the K8 to be moved .
2 One Sunday in four he refused to go out and stayed at home to read and write .
3 After just six weeks she returned home and refused to go back .
4 He waited months for a day centre place ; when he got one it was unsuitable and he refused to go .
5 A Volvo spokesman last night refused to go into the reasons behind the deal .
6 But Mr Fitzwater refused to go into details on the various compromises being suggested to winkle Noriega from his refuge .
7 Stories circulate about regiments that refused to go to Vilnius , and of officers who refused to fire once there .
8 We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go …
9 He refused to go near a doctor .
10 The women , as usual , bore the brunt of it , for everyone stayed up late , children refused to go to bed at night and men would not get up in the morning .
11 Half the class refused to go to the lessons , frightened of being set on fire or being thrown through a window , but Endill liked the suspense of waiting to see what each mixture did next .
12 ‘ My wife went but I refused to go there .
13 It was so big that some of the ASP surfers refused to go out .
14 She , still thrilled with the beauty of the world , refused to go until at last , angered , her father used his powers of enchantment to put the giants into a deep sleep and turned his daughter Tamara in to a silver flowing stream .
15 Local youths soon spread the rumour that ‘ Nandie ’ refused to go down , but kept popping up for his ‘ two penny'orth ’ of rum ’ .
16 In a match at Elland Road Wainwright was given his marching orders for swearing after an offside decision — but refused to go .
17 Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved .
18 Haig , calling Begin inflexible , refused to go to Jerusalem for talks and later resigned .
19 They refused to go home at the end of their shift and worked frantically to reach him .
20 Corbett went to meet him ; at first the fellow refused to go , saying he was tired and wanted to rest .
21 Her desires were my only hold over her , so despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line .
22 OK I refused to go to Gran 's funeral last year , stayed at home and listened to the Top Forty top volume while I shouted out Nora 's big speech from The Doll 's House — ‘ I was simply your little songbird , your doll … ’
23 The debtor who refused to go and defend himself against his creditor 's charges risked having some of his possessions seized and sold to pay what he still owed .
24 By now , with the termination of Mr M 's role as tutor to the girl who refused to go to school , she was receiving no education at all .
25 Once a new tutor was appointed for the girl who refused to go to school , Mr and Mrs M drew back a little .
26 The petite blonde star refused to go in his car and drove her own vehicle to his central London offices .
27 THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting .
28 Neil , beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes when he refused to go shoplifting , was last night reunited with his sister Claire , nine , and six-year-old brother Daniel .
29 Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away .
30 The afternoon shift , however , refused to go into work .
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