Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've relieved him of the financial burden , but we both share the interest of the place . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 4 | Perhaps he hoped thus to outmanoeuvre those critics who have accused him of infantilism . |
| 5 | Perhaps he hoped thus to outmanoeuvre those critics who have accused him of infantilism . |
| 6 | But critics have accused him of being autocratic and intolerant of dissent . |
| 7 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |