Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] of [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 2 | Everyone in the playground was staring at her , and any minute now Miss Hardbroom ( Mildred 's terrifying form-mistress from the previous year ) was bound to appear and accuse her of upsetting a poor new girl . |
| 3 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 4 | The Court smoked him out and convicted him of supplying the stuff . |
| 5 | A member of the Leeds ' band Hang The Dance , Roman Remeynes , contacted The Wedding Present after hearing the Ukrainian session and accused them of bastardising the music . |
| 6 | Pitt 's great parliamentary opponent , Charles James Fox and his supporters roundly condemned his profligacy in loans to foreign powers , an obvious but overestimated cause of gold drain , and accused him of bringing the country to the point of bankruptcy . |
| 7 | Appeal Court judge Sir Stephen Brown blamed Nottinghamshire last week for an ‘ unhappy catalogue of errors ’ in a child protection case , and accused it of misusing the Children Act . |
| 8 | In his address on July 15 , Mandela blamed the government for the continuing violence in South Africa 's townships , and accused it of pursuing a " cold-blooded strategy of state terrorism " . |