Example sentences of "had [been] refused [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose , giving evidence , said Sweeney had been refused a drink at three pubs and left a fourth . |
| 2 | Gran had been refused a bank loan for new guttering — because of her age , she opined huffily — so had decided to sell off some possessions that had come to her from her mother . |
| 3 | They were informed by the school 's governors that each daughter had been refused a place because ‘ she did not meet any of the admission criteria . ’ |
| 4 | The survey included people receiving ICA , some who had stopped receiving ICA three to twelve months previously , and others who had been refused the allowance . |
| 5 | United have not given up hope of signing the England international despite having a formally faxed £3.5 million offer for the striker thrown in the bin by Sheffield Wednesday last Friday , after a verbal offer had been refused the previous week . |
| 6 | Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times . |