Pevsner speaks in glowing terms of its reticulated tracery, mullioned and transomed windows and octagonal abaci, but though I rattled its ramshackle doors they sternly refused to open.
Miliband has sternly refused to discuss possible scenarios after the next election, or the chance of forming "a coalition of the losers" if, as seems most likely, Labour comes second in terms of seats.
When Shred pressed Marv for a sale, Marv sternly refused.
"I do not connect with Barbie dolls," she told me sternly, "so I refused.
In Buenos Aires, the cardinal showed real compassion for HIV victims, and he sternly rebuked priests who refused to baptize children born out of wedlock.
When asked what it meant to him, one prominent tribal sheik held up his finger and said sternly, "I am an Ismaili, and if the government said, 'We will cut you into pieces if you don't become a Sunni,' I would refuse".
He sternly told those in evacuation zones that refusing to leave immediately endangered the entire city by diverting emergency workers.
The title refers to an interchange with a judge when Bourne was once on trial: Bourne was sternly asked to remove his hat in court and refused, because it "goes with the shoes".
"We want everybody to understand that there is an imminent danger," he said sternly, noting that some people near the town of Nutrioso, where the fire had reached the periphery, had refused to leave.
Refusing to eat or to dress for the cold, she is so fanatically devout that the Mother Superior takes her aside, sternly admonishes her for her "self-love," describes her as "a caricature of a nun" and expels her from the convent until she has more experience in the world.
