Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 2 | Bisset protested that it was wrong to accuse Burke of inconsistency , because of the change of his arguments . |
| 3 | ( It is curious that Mr. Cleaver is at pains to accuse Israel of war crimes , when his previous correspondence in the press has shown a soft spot for Nazi war criminals who may still be living in Britain ) . |
| 4 | Nicholas , in the course of these encounters , failed to meet John of Kinloch whose regard for him , he rather feared , would be unaltered . |
| 5 | Bertie Ahern , who had dropped out of the leadership contest to assure Reynolds of victory , remained Finance Minister . |
| 6 | Georgia responded by accusing Russia of interference . |
| 7 | ‘ This fight is no big deal ’ says Bowe of sport 's richest prize , ‘ just another fight , just another victim . |
| 8 | It may be that , even if the final stages of bringing the marriage about had temporarily overshadowed the making of the First Band , the Protestant threat thus created had sufficiently alarmed Mary of Guise and Hamilton into reacting with swift and exemplary violence once Mary was safely married . |
| 9 | On July 27 , 1989 , the Pakistani Minister of State for Finance , Ehsanul Haq Piracha , opening the third session of the Nepal-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission in Kathmandu , assured Nepal of support to help it overcome problems resulting from the trade blockade with India . |
| 10 | Some will no doubt accuse Jarman of shock tactics along Warhol lines , but Jarman has reinforced the view that performance and installation art are at their strongest when addressing social or political issues . |
| 11 | Clement wrote a pamphlet giving his reasons for the split and accusing Wilson of mismanagement , irresponsible militancy and the encouragement of foreign seamen into Britain , presumably because of his refusal to accept a rule which would debar them from membership . |
| 12 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |
| 13 | All the major Test playing nations are represented ( save Pakistan of course ) , the West Indies dominating with nine overseas professionals , of whom only three were actually playing against South Africa . |
| 14 | Remarks made on June 19 by Jacques Chirac , mayor of Paris and leader of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) , were attacked as racist by Cresson , who had already accused Chirac of plumbing racist feeling in order to win over voters from the far-right National Front ( FN ) . |
| 15 | Two years later he joined Simon of Montfort when the latter returned to England and reimposed the Provisions . |
| 16 | But the report missed the fact that the republicans , through the Wolfe Tone Societies , had been largely responsible for creating NICRA in the first place and some commentators have accused Cameron of naïveté about republican influence . |
| 17 | On Aug. 3 the White House was forced to repudiate a newsletter written by Mary Matalin , political director of the Bush campaign , which had accused Clinton of character failings ranging from the avoidance of military service and marital infidelity to overeating . |
| 18 | Labour M P's and environment groups are saying tonight that Environment Secretary , Chris Patten has come up with a load of waffle in his three hundred and fifty point plan to rid Britain of pollution ; from Westminster , Des Fahey : |
| 19 | The Third Attempt to Rid Britain of Socialism |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I recently launched a major initiative to rid Darlington of bus congestion . |
| 21 | A mystic who refused to retract a statement accusing Tughluk of tyranny had his mouth held open by skewers while excrement was poured down his throat . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , Hart is highly critical of Devlin 's identification of society with its shared morality and he further accuses Devlin of conceiving of morality as a ‘ seamless web ’ , so that those who deviate from one part of it are almost bound to deviate from the whole . |
| 23 | Will Douglas ordered Scott of Rankilburn to go back to the now blazing village , the cottage thatches burning readily , and round up a crowd of men , women and children . |
| 24 | The prelates continued to act as mediators throughout the summer months , assuring Lancaster of safety from the threats of the king 's latest favourites . |
| 25 | , Isaac ( 1890–1918 ) , artist and poet , was born in Bristol 25 November 1890 , the second child and second son in the family of four sons and two daughters of Dovber ( later Barnett ) Rosenberg , a Lithuanian who had emigrated from Moscow to avoid conscription into the Russian army and settled in Bristol , working as a pedlar , and his wife Hacha , daughter of an innkeeper called Davidov of Drinsk in Lithuania . |
| 26 | Call for fresh probe into firm Beggs accuses Dail of inaction |
| 27 | Smith accuses Major of treaty secrecy |
| 28 | Kinnock accuses Major of tax bribe |
| 29 | The writ accuses AA of negligence , breach of contract and accounting malpractice and claims that the thrift , which grew enormously between 1984 and 1987 , built up its capital artificially with the help of suspect accounting practices that AA approved . |
| 30 | Sheffield Eagles could be second division champions if they defeat London and Leigh lose at Workington but victory would assure Leigh of promotion . |