Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] of [be] " 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 was accusing you of being a saboteur … ’ |
| 10 | Scorned girlfriend Kathryn George Harries , 29 , wreaked her revenge at the home of her 75-year-old lover after suspecting him of being unfaithful . |
| 11 | Suspecting him of being a reckless daredevil was one thing . |
| 12 | She closed her eyes in ecstasy as Jamie flung himself on her , accusing her of being a flirt . |
| 13 | This was not sexual jealousy , though Charles Greville [ q.v. ] sent Harriett an anonymous letter accusing her of being in love with Wellington . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His gregarious mother sometimes teases her son by accusing him of being too virtuous . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Graham axed David Rocastle two seasons ago , accusing him of being overweight after the summer break . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And now , here was his father also accusing him of being cross . |
| 21 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 22 | In other public statements he was openly critical of the Lord Chancellor and his department , accusing it of being secretive and antiquated . |