Example sentences of "refuse [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusing to cower behind the racks as she usually did , she walked boldly along the centre aisle . |
| 2 | ‘ I have sworn no oath to you , my lady , ’ retorted Isabel , refusing to cower . |
| 3 | He refuses to wear the ceremonial purple of a bishop , preferring instead simple monastic robes . |
| 4 | BBC Radio Sussex sports producer John Lees is refusing to interview Sussex 's new captain Alan Wells , because of Well 's involvement with the ‘ rebel ’ England X1 tour of South Africa in 1989–90 . |
| 5 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 6 | Nurses are now encouraged to exercise their professional judgement in safe-guarding the interests of individual patients and clients , and for some this means exposing poor management and refusing to carry out instructions which they believe to be against the interests of their patients/clients . |
| 7 | Bobo draws attention to the role of cultural groups functioning as interpretative communities in the construction of oppositional readings of films which are regarded as reactionary by a theoreticist criticism refusing to see signification as a two-way social process . |
| 8 | Now he will never feel the remorse I had hoped he would feel for refusing to see me . |
| 9 | Always seeking excuses for her , refusing to see her as bad — . |
| 10 | ‘ You just do n't want me to carry on my business , do you ? ’ she hit back , angered at his refusal and refusing to see the rest as a compliment . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the Housing Corporation , which regulates housing associations , said they were refusing to go ahead with the scheme without funding for running costs . |
| 12 | However , the bargain must be made well in advance ; it will only undermine your disciplinary strategy if you wait until he is lying on the floor , kicking and screaming and refusing to go to the shops , and then begin promising ice-cream . |
| 13 | Most of the possible legal moves in a chess position have simple refutations ; refusing to go beyond those refutations should allow a machine to screen out enormous numbers of possibilities , and focus its evaluating time on just those moves about which there are serious questions . |
| 14 | For them there is a needless , lifelong fear of encountering a strange cat , a fear that sometimes ends with them refusing to go out of doors at all . |
| 15 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 16 | The Premier League got off to a wonderful start as far as its detractors were concerned when Arsenal lost 4-2 at home to Norwich , a side still stubbornly refusing to go back to what is considered their rightful place near the bottom of the League . |
| 17 | You 're not going to hurt Mother Francis by refusing to go to this place she 's sending you . |
| 18 | She wore her parents out by nightly refusing to go to bed until they did ; whereupon she would sleep normally . |
| 19 | So does deliberately wetting the carpet or shouting angrily at mother , or refusing to go to bed . |
| 20 | Left-wing means this : asking for a fair wage , joining a political organisation , refusing to go into the army or complaining if the security forces kill your husband and torture your sons . |
| 21 | After flirting with paisley-patterned pop but refusing to go all the way , Will and Colin turned their attention to the politics of dancing , falling helplessly under its wily spell . |
| 22 | She blamed herself for trusting him to wait , for not refusing to go to Sniffy without the van keys in her possession . |
| 23 | She stopped in her tracks , absolutely refusing to go one step further , and waited for him to turn around . |
| 24 | Now , on the Sunday she died , Lady Eleanor abruptly broke with custom , refusing to go to Compline , and someone as alert as you must have seen the secret preparations she had made . ’ |
| 25 | After flirting with paisley-patterned pop but refusing to go all the way , Will and Colin turned their attention to the politics of dancing , falling helplessly under its wily spell . |
| 26 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |
| 27 | I , the committee , and Hochhauser will probably sue you for refusing to go on , thereby breaking your contract ! ’ |
| 28 | Yet with Rosemary still refusing to go out with Travis and Travis falling more and more in love with her the whole time , there was no way he could stay away . |
| 29 | By refusing to include theory , the department is , in effect , refusing to declare its own theoretical standpoint : it must have a standpoint , for it is impossible to judge or measure the correctness of someone 's ‘ affective ’ or ‘ quasi-sensuous ’ response ; yet English departments do examine and judge people 's performance , just like any other department . |
| 30 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |