Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 6 interest in the Iran-contra investigation was renewed when a federal grand jury indicted Clair E. George , former chief of CIA covert operations , on 10 felony accounts accusing him of lying to and obstructing congressional and judicial investigations of the Iran-contra affair . |
| 2 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 3 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 4 | The black mouths of the peat haggs reminded him of stories about ghosts and murders . |
| 5 | One of the parents accused him of ‘ smiling when it was completely inappropriate to do so ’ . |
| 6 | The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of . |
| 7 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 8 | Scattered around him were complete skeletons reminding him of when his country was able to produce crops and feed animals . |
| 9 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 10 | Looking right then left he saw the signals with their warning lights reassuring him of their presence . |
| 11 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |
| 12 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 13 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 14 | Chekhov was Dad 's favourite all-time writer , and he always said Chekhov 's plays and stories reminded him of India . |
| 15 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 16 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 17 | The Israelis accused him of selling nuclear information to the Iraqis in 1985 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When her husband was spotted , torch in hand , prowling the garden at night , the neighbours accused him of spying . |
| 20 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 21 | The national television and radio stations reported on March 13 that lawyers all over the country were demanding Muite 's resignation , and articles in three national newspapers accused him of maligning Kenya 's former President , Jomo Kenyatta . |
| 22 | Student leaders accuse him of failing to understand the system . |
| 23 | But Mr Arafat 's critics accuse him of acting like a dictator by forcing his wishes on the Palestinian movement . |
| 24 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 25 | RELATIONS between the British Medical Association and Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , reached a fresh low last night , as doctors ' leaders accused him of appearing to renege on promises that patients ' drugs would not be cash-limited under the Government 's National Health Service plans . |
| 26 | Haughey 's original choice for the Defence post , James McDaid , withdrew hours after his nomination when opposition leaders accused him of being a Sinn Féin " fellow-traveller " in that he had opposed the extradition to the United Kingdom of an IRA escapee , James Pius Clarke . |
| 27 | During his spin around Phoenix , the ambassador remarked that the climate and surroundings reminded him of home . |
| 28 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 29 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 30 | It 's pointed teeth remind him of some giant cheese grater with a mind of it 's own , face smiling ready to strike . |