Example sentences of "[noun sg] refused [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 2 | Leominster District Council refused to comment on the Redlands application , beyond saying consultations are still going on . |
| 3 | Sroud District Council refused to comment on the Ropers case other than to say it had acted completely correctly in all its dealings with the couple . |
| 4 | Moreover , even when funds were available , the peasantry refused to fight for the monarch : and this was true even with the growth of an expropriated landless labouring class . |
| 5 | The county council committee refused to comply with the request to remove Outram , pronouncing themselves well-pleased with their head-teacher . |
| 6 | The court refused to accede to the appellant 's argument that the fact that the restraint was contained in a mortgage deed excluded the application of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 7 | The protestors chains were easily removed , but the firm 's own padlock refused to budge before the application of some forceful technology . |
| 8 | A Volvo spokesman last night refused to go into the reasons behind the deal . |
| 9 | Officials in Peking last night refused to comment on the award . |
| 10 | The report also rules that genetic manipulation of sperm , embryos or their parts is unethical , and that surrogate motherhood is not acceptable , The BMA this week refused to comment on the leaks . |
| 11 | When the Housing Corporation refused to contribute to the cost of these features , the HBC relaxed its general policy of contributing only 50 per cent of the cost of eligible items and met the full cost . |
| 12 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 13 | When 200,000 demonstrators marched through Budapest on 23 October and the imprisoned leader , Imre Nagy , was swept to power , the Army refused to act against the demonstrators and the police handed their batons to the students . |
| 14 | The Westminster government refused to negotiate with the strikers and proposed to use the army to maintain essential services . |
| 15 | Mr Christie claimed that though the Dutch and Belgian governments contributed to save sections of Leyland-DAF in their own countries , the British plants were left out in the cold after our government refused to participate in the rescue . |
| 16 | The government refused to agree to the Indians ' demand that it abandon its militarized " security zone " on the Peruvian frontier , and pass a constitutional amendment recognizing the country as " multi-cultural and multi-national " . |
| 17 | The 13 February demonstration was organised by students after the government refused to act on the findings of a Commission of Inquiry into an apparently punitive army raid on Yopougan university campus in May 1991 . |
| 18 | A government spokesman refused to comment on the report , but Mr Patten denied that he had presented Beijing with an ultimatum . |
| 19 | ‘ One bank refused to comply with the Bank of England and threatened to call in its brokers ’ loans . |
| 20 | The Department of Health refused to comment on the claims . |
| 21 | Where the employer refused to deal with the union , the possibility of eventual violence was always high . |
| 22 | The remainder would then be destroyed over the following two years provided that no third country refused to comply with the ban . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
| 25 | Buckingham Palace refused to elaborate on the holiday arrangements , saying they were ‘ totally private ’ . |
| 26 | Buckingham Palace refused to comment on the princess 's birthday plans and said : |