Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dog agility appeals to all ages … although seven year old Daniel Treagus was having trouble with his Cavalier King Charles spaniel which refused to climb the A frame : |
| 2 | In one of heavyweight boxing 's most distinguished nights , Bowe had to tear the crown from a champion who refused to accept the inevitability of defeat even when he was knocked down and seemingly out in the 11th round of a brilliant fight . |
| 3 | The Commission referred to its previous opinion in the Van Oosterwijk case , ‘ that a State which refused to recognise the new status of a transsexual after medical treatment resulting in a change of sex failed to respect private life ’ . |
| 4 | James Kilfedder ( see below North Down page 16 ) is apparently the only candidate who refused to sign the undertaking without losing the support of the coalition . |
| 5 | On her release she refused to hand the paper over to other Communist party members , and was expelled from the party . |
| 6 | A fourth , dominated by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Socialist League , a body founded in 1932 by a large minority group of the Independent Labour Party which refused to leave the Labour Party , favoured a ‘ united front ’ with the Communists against fascists . |
| 7 | Speaking through his solicitor he refused to join the debate over the identification of defendants in rape cases . |