Example sentences of "[verb] him of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His remarks , during his recent US tour , were shown only days after Pravda reprinted — and then apologised for — an Italian newspaper article accusing him of drunkenness and high-living during the trip . |
| 32 | But while there was praise in abundance , there were many people who felt in accord with his objectives and yet could not bring themselves to like the man himself , accusing him of cajolery , ruthlessness and arrogance ; not very pleasant traits for a man to have , unless of course the man has political aspirations ! |
| 33 | Protests : Student unrest had already involved a brief occupation of Abidjan cathedral on Feb. 23 , with demonstrators calling on Houphouët-Boigny to resign and accusing him of corruption . |
| 34 | It was Barron who had made a show of looking at the figures but it was MacQuillan who had screamed at Pascoe down the telephone accusing him of fraud . |
| 35 | A series of scathing and ultimately unfounded articles published in the Sunday People , accusing him of bribery led to a High Court appearance and an early end to his playing career . |
| 36 | He had to kneel down in the muddy track , damaging his trousers , reminding him of playground agonies ; he gripped , tugged , balanced . |
| 37 | I remember the English critic Philip Hope-Wallace saying that her Lucia with you in Berlin in 1955 robbed him of sleep for a week . |
| 38 | I shall die with that feeling of guilt , that it was I who robbed him of life . ’ |
| 39 | When the jury robbed him of justice , they took it personally . |
| 40 | And there was no repeat of the last-gasp disaster which struck the Spanish star three years ago , when a transmission problem robbed him of victory three stages from the finish . |
| 41 | Four , five , even six or seven reversioners might be appointed for a single place ; and , while all might have been appointed by the King initially , this queue of hopefuls stretching into the future certainly deprived him of choice when the office became vacant . |
| 42 | It was the folds of the banner , lying thick and cold in the shelter below , that saved his life , but not his skull from the blow that deprived him of consciousness . |
| 43 | LAWYERS for Mike Tyson demanded a new trial for the former heavyweight champion yesterday , arguing that the jury which convicted him of rape was not allowed to consider whether his accuser had confused him as to whether she was a willing sex partner . |
| 44 | A Teesside Crown Court jury cleared him of both charges but convicted him of arson last month . |
| 45 | Osborne 's parents Jennifer , 40 , and Christopher , 43 , wept as the jury convicted him of murder at Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 46 | There was a new smell in the air — the fresh scent of flowers , a hint of lemon , and a drowsy aroma that reminded him of honey . |
| 47 | During his spin around Phoenix , the ambassador remarked that the climate and surroundings reminded him of home . |
| 48 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 49 | Although it was so dark , it reminded him of summer , being under thick leafy forest trees in sunlight . |
| 50 | Serbian opponents accuse him of blackmail and extortion . |
| 51 | When Mr V. appears , we accuse him of car cleaning . |
| 52 | It had also fallen to Montaine to take her brother food when he was confined to the cave , warn him of danger when it was acute , and when the coast was clear to fetch him home . |
| 53 | The elections had originally been scheduled for January 1990 and then postponed to Feb. 18 when they were abandoned soon after polling started upon the observation of irregularities , and Djohar 's rivals accused him of vote-rigging . |
| 54 | A considerable part of his gathered congregation , already suspicious after his release in 1654 , accused him of apostasy , and in 1656 , following an acrimonious dispute , seceded to form a new church . |
| 55 | Unionist politicians accused him of naivety and dismissed the truce as a publicity stunt . |
| 56 | It began in 1987 when civil disorder erupted in Panama after the general 's second-in-command publicly accused him of drug-trafficking , electoral fraud and the murder of an opposition politician . |
| 57 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 58 | However , the Catholic Church at Carcassonne had its own ideas about Sauniere 's riches and accused him of simony — the selling of pardons — a charge which was eventually dropped . |
| 59 | His remarks follow a strong personal attack on Mr Major from the French president , Franois Mitterrand , who accused him of disloyalty and a lack of solidarity with other EC leaders because of his opposition to the social chapter . |
| 60 | Less than three months after his appointment Chaovalit resigned after a Cabinet colleague , Chalerm Yubamrung ( who was thought to be close to Chatichai ) , accused him of corruption . |