Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the game , Hungarian officials lodged a complaint against the Newcastle team , specifically Gallacher , accusing them of being drunk and disorderly . |
| 2 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 3 | He wrote a series of letters to Pepys , Locke and other friends , accusing them of being atheists and Catholics . |
| 4 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 5 | On the one occasion on which I did so ( according to my diary ) the other girls laughed , and the teacher became annoyed , accusing me of being deliberately provocative . |
| 6 | Her voice shook with anger as she said , ‘ You 're accusing me of being underhand ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being dull ? |
| 8 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being involved with the people who did this … are you ? ’ |
| 9 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 10 | You ought to be thanking me for being so considerate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was accusing you of being a saboteur … ’ |
| 12 | He was a little tired of coaxing her into being friendly . |
| 13 | Scorned girlfriend Kathryn George Harries , 29 , wreaked her revenge at the home of her 75-year-old lover after suspecting him of being unfaithful . |
| 14 | Suspecting him of being a reckless daredevil was one thing . |
| 15 | Only the fact that these strong fibres are generally quite small prevents the operation of breaking them from being a dangerous one . |
| 16 | Only then will we be able to see what 's so special about observing them by being told them . |
| 17 | Kabir came to the market to sell from his loom when the woman grasped his hand , blaming him for being faithless , and followed him to his house , saying she would not be forsaken . |
| 18 | The claim failed when the EAT held that neither the derecognition of an established trade union , nor the disadvantages for employees resulting from that derecognition , was action taken against Mr Wilson ‘ as an individual ’ for the purpose of penalising him or deterring him from being a union member . |
| 19 | They fasten on theological truths as on an armoury of big sticks , and they rain down blows on their long-suffering faith , belabouring it for being substandard and for failing to believe what it should . |
| 20 | The Open Software Foundation denies a scathing front-page story in last week 's Communications Week that practically writes off its Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) , charging it with being late , possibly too late to matter much to the marketplace , and with causing in-fighting between OSF 's technology suppliers . |
| 21 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 22 | She closed her eyes in ecstasy as Jamie flung himself on her , accusing her of being a flirt . |
| 23 | This was not sexual jealousy , though Charles Greville [ q.v. ] sent Harriett an anonymous letter accusing her of being in love with Wellington . |
| 24 | A visit by Portuguese parliamentarians and journalists to the former Portuguese territory , which Indonesia had de facto incorporated into its territory in 1976 [ see pp. 27906-07 ] , was scheduled after repeated postponements for Nov. 4 , but was postponed indefinitely in late October , when the Indonesian side objected to the inclusion of a freelance reporter for the Melbourne Age , Jill Joliffe , accusing her of being a " crusader " and propagandist for East Timor 's Fretilin guerrilla movement . |
| 25 | CIVIC Forum , the Czechoslovak opposition movement , reacted in fury last night to the resignation of the Prime Minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , accusing him of being entirely to blame for a ‘ political crisis ’ , and of citing ‘ untrue facts ’ in earlier threatening to resign . |
| 26 | His gregarious mother sometimes teases her son by accusing him of being too virtuous . |
| 27 | I was so angry that I wrote a furious letter to him accusing him of being un-Christian and ignorant , and also wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury , whom I also regard as ineffectual . |
| 28 | Graham axed David Rocastle two seasons ago , accusing him of being overweight after the summer break . |
| 29 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 30 | And now , here was his father also accusing him of being cross . |