Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 2 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 3 | He saw he had made Malm think him of unsound mind and he said quietly , earnestly , " There was nothing , nothing but what I 've told you . " |
| 4 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ Some ghastly little girl accused her of lesbian advances . ’ |
| 6 | The tranquillity and gentleness of the scene reminded her of Japanese paintings . |
| 7 | The offline manager must specify for each media item whether it is to be used for primary or secondary purposes , although there is no absolute requirement to make them of different media types . |
| 8 | Periodic meetings are held with the co-ordinators to inform them of current activities and this important group of staff have been very responsive and supportive in disseminating information to their departments . |
| 9 | Students had to attend special political classes to remind them of socialist values , the four basic principles and other tenets of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought . |
| 10 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 11 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |
| 12 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 13 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 14 | But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not allow any man to accuse me of bad behaviour ! ’ she cried . |
| 16 | Often our intuition or sixth sense warns us of impending danger but we ignore it because of social pressure , lack of time or lack of courage . |
| 17 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 18 | We must fill our minds with the utmost of irrelevant information so that things we look at will remind us of other things and the more distant and more ridiculous the analogy , the higher the chance of the idea being really valuable . |
| 19 | In 1966 the Americans , and the British , both in economic difficulties themselves , pressed the Bonn government to relieve them of military costs in Germany . |
| 20 | The smell of machine oil reminds me of other guns I 've handled in my time . |
| 21 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 22 | For weeks now Afshr 's office had been chaotic , besieged every day by rich men and rich women reminding him of past favours , promising him future ones . |
| 23 | No doubt some contemporaries of the journalists who uncovered Watergate accused them of partisan bias and lack of balance — but I doubt that any of these commentators would have drawn an analogy between this investigative reporting and the repeated and transparently mendacious press statements of the Nixon Administration . |
| 24 | John accused me of wimpish behaviour , so we did the tourist bit around the pits . |
| 25 | Contrasting considerably from the Spartan angularity of Siobhan 's bungalow , Kim 's house reminds me of American homes I have seen , lavish with plum and antiques to imitate English country homes . |
| 26 | And Mr Corker has received letters from the tourism office advising him of financial help available for expansion plans . |