She hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he refused it.

她马上给客人送去一杯水，但客人拒绝了。

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She asked him for employment in his office but he refused it at a word.

她要求到他的事务所里找一份工作，但他当即拒绝了。

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He asked his son to pick it up, but Toby refused.

他让儿子去捡，但托比拒绝了。

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He had hoped his longtime business partner John Stark would publish it, but he refused.

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But he refused to let it force him to do what others wished.

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He then disassembled it, but my son refused to let him send it back as he now saw it as a family heirloom that should forever hang in our garage to remind us of this marvelous experience.

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He has since refused to expand on his decision, but it is believed that he had become unhappy with the SPL's decision not to take legal action to prevent Celtic broadcasting matches without a licence or to inform the other clubs of its reasons.

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He said he refused to do so but found evidence it was happening anyway.

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