Example sentences of "[verb] him of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
2 | And he turned on Mr Major to accuse him of running ‘ a regime unwilling to tolerate dissent and afraid of views different from its own ’ . |
3 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
4 | Grateful for the Burford man 's help , Seb told him of finding Anna in the Wychwood Forest , adding , ‘ It 's lucky she did n't die before we found her . |
5 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
6 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
7 | We may not always be completely happy with the published data we find in the Registrar-General 's reviews but we can not accuse him of using secondary sources when his organization has , in fact , collected all the information at first hand from the people themselves . |
8 | At least no one could ever accuse him of lacking decency and moral courage . |
9 | No-one could accuse him of having a truly awful game at Windsor but we still await the ‘ big one ’ from Michael on Ulster soil . |
10 | Whatever you thought of Hugh , no one could accuse him of running a ‘ tight ship ’ . |
11 | If he can not , then I suggest Mr keeps quiet , because people could accuse him of lying for the sake of lying 's sake . |
12 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
13 | GM has now accused him of taking industrial secrets as well . |
14 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
15 | After all he was doing for her , she had virtually accused him of trying to seduce her . |
16 | The charges , filed in January 1989 , had accused him of ordering the shooting in 1986 of John O'Connor , an official of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [ see p. 36680 ] . |
17 | Once , Jean-Paul had accused him of acting like God , and that accusation had stayed with him , paining him . |
18 | She had accused him of leading her on . |
19 | Nutty had once accused him of giving his mare extra feed at night because she was fatter than all the others , but it was true : he did give her extra . |
20 | One newspaper has accused him of lying . |
21 | Maybe she had accused him of doing appalling things with Badger . |
22 | Perhaps spotting a chink in Clinton 's armour , the Republicans have further accused him of stirring up feeling against the war . |
23 | the only bad news to come out of Cambridge was that Swindon 's Micky Hazard could be in trouble with the FA and the police who 've accused him of inciting the crowd |
24 | She 'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother . |
25 | Weill correctly perceived that the voice of the American nation was to be found in the musical , but as this form commanded no intellectual respect , the musical establishment has ever since accused him of selling out politically as well as musically . |
26 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
27 | The local council has accused him of running a business from his home . |
28 | One minute you say trustfully that he contains only soya meal and the next you suspect him of harbouring chunks of minced-up nameless anatomy . |
29 | She did glance at him then , rather warily , as though suspecting him of trying to ridicule her . |
30 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |