Promise and Refuse

help	promise help	refuse help
opportunity	promise opportunity	refuse opportunity
time	promise time	refuse time
money	promise money	refuse money
Other words: food, mother, war, times, orders.

Both words in one sentence

When the inmates refuse Wiggum lets them go anyway if they promise not to commit any more crimes (which they also refuse to do).

Source: Police Are Useless / Western Animation
They refuse, but promise to come back for her when Ryuuji becomes a proper boxer; as she watches them go Chiyo promises to wait for their return.

Source: Manga / Ring Ni Kakero
She breaks her promise in the same episode because one of her clients made her come to her wedding and she didn't have a heart to refuse, and Ally has to dance in the street wearing her pajamas, which was a bet/dare/"punishment" agreement with her roommate Renée.

Source: Bouquet Toss

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