Example sentences of "refused to give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 2 | He refused to give a definite reply until the contents of the Declaration , which the King was due to make , were known . |
| 3 | Griffin spent three days in jail after he refused to give a breath sample . |
| 4 | In 1991 , after thrashing 259 off Middlesex at Chelmsford to clinch the Championship , he refused to give a press conference , saying he had promised to take Brenda shopping . |
| 5 | The 68,000-member Rail , Maritime and Transport Union called the strike after British Rail refused to give a pledge that there will be no compulsory redundancies . |
| 6 | Although President Hussein denied the allegations during a meeting with a US Senate delegation on April 11 , he refused to give a full assurance that Iraqi scientists would not research into biological weapons . |
| 7 | The five leading members of the party at the centre of the controversy , Pearnel Charles , Errol Anderson , Karl Samuda , Edmund Bartlett and Douglas Vaz , although stating that they did not want to unseat Seaga , refused to give a public statement of unconditional loyalty to him . |
| 8 | There was n't any problem with old Pinkie Blenkinsop , but when the matter came up Trueman refused to give a promise that we could all stay here until we were carried out feet first . |
| 9 | In 1976 , as a county court judge , Judge Hill refused to give a wife suing for divorce a court order that her husband 's mistress should be evicted from the marital home . |
| 10 | Will he tell us why he refused to give an interview on the television programme referred to by my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) ? |
| 11 | Simms maintained his silence on the reason for his withdrawal , and in 1842 refused to give an interview to R. R. Madden [ q.v. ] , then writing his history of the United Irishmen . |
| 12 | Fears of a tax on books were fuelled when , during an interview on BBC Television with David Frost on Sunday 3rd January , the Prime Minister refused to give an undertaking that VAT would not be extended in the spring Budget to zero-rated goods and services such as books , newspapers , food and children 's clothes . |
| 13 | She refused to give an inch . |
| 14 | On his retirement , Mirror Newspapers refused to give the contract for the distribution of their newspapers to Mr Stark 's daughter , Mrs Gunning . |
| 15 | Those who refused to give the figures ranged from tiny building societies , who simply did not have the technology to work out the sum , to large multi-national banks with copious staff and computers to hand . |