Example sentences of "[verb] him of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons . |
| 4 | Walesa 's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability . |
| 5 | Soon afterwards he accompanied Charles Howard , Earl of Carlisle [ q.v. ] , as envoy to Alexis , but was not admitted to the negotiations , the Russians probably suspecting him of changing masters . |
| 6 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 7 | Timex management had told him of substantial losses in recent years and of the possibility of another massive deficit this year . |
| 8 | Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year . |
| 9 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |
| 10 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 11 | The jury deliberated for 10 days before acquitting Fama of firing the fatal shot , but convicting him of second-degree murder by virtue of his participation in the attack ; he was also convicted of numerous lesser charges including those relating to the unlawful possession of weapons . |
| 12 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 13 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The monstrous irony is that as long as he does n't place bolts nobody will bother accusing him of environmental vandalism . |
| 15 | UP leaders immediately demanded the resignation of the Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmons , accusing him of ultimate responsibility for the crime and claiming that he had encouraged right-wing death squads to murder UP leaders . |
| 16 | She furnished Eliot with the title and central concept of his poem , but was otherwise more important for summarizing and reminding him of other people 's ideas , such as those of E. K. Chambers speaking of literary forms encompassing ‘ fragments of forgotten cults ’ . |
| 17 | The patient 's self-esteem can be enhanced by reminding him of positive aspects of his personality or previous accomplishments . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . " |
| 20 | But a court at Bedlington , Northumberland , convicted him of criminal damage and ordered him to pay £1,100 for the damage . |
| 21 | His meditations are interrupted by two figures from his past , who remind him of separate acts of cowardice and inhumanity . |
| 22 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
| 23 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 24 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 25 | A rank , fetid odour clogged his nostrils and reminded him of bad meat . |
| 26 | He 's had a lifelong fight with feminists who accuse him of extreme male chauvinism and damaging their dignity . |
| 27 | So as to purge him of wicked curiosity ? |
| 28 | They followed widespread criticism of Keating in the British tabloid press , which accused him of insulting Queen Elizabeth during her 12th state visit earlier in February for the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Sydney as a city . |
| 29 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 30 | Different considerations might apply where the agent 's misrepresentation is about the effect of the document which deprives him of apparent authority . |