Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] accuse of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 2 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 3 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 4 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 5 | They had been accused of deceiving the Department of Trade and Industry by claiming machine tools destined for Iraq had peaceful purposes when they were specifically designed to make fuses for shells . |
| 6 | They had been accused of involvement in a number of attacks on targets connected with European and US interests in Amman in 1990-91 . |
| 7 | He was determined to be accessible during the campaign : in the past he had been accused of being too aloof . |
| 8 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 9 | Arrested on 22 January , he had been accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 10 | These were intensified by the fact that he had been accused of believing that the world would continue to exist for eternity . |
| 11 | He had been accused of being a Communist he said , simply because he had expressed democratic and nationalist sentiments in his book , ‘ The Negro in the Caribbean ’ . |
| 12 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 13 | More recently he had been accused of planning to allow Mongolia to be absorbed into the Soviet Union prior to the death of Stalin . |
| 14 | He had been accused of the murder in 1976 of a tobacco industrialist and a police inspector . |
| 15 | A government announcement on Jan. 27 , detailing corruption charges against Ershad , said that he had been accused of misappropriating funds in 1990 amounting to between £3,000,000 and £4,000,000 ( US$5-7,000,000 ) in the purchase of three advanced turbo prop aircraft from the British company , British Aerospace . |
| 16 | He had been accused of spying and held without trial since December 1985 [ see pp. 35544 ; 37423 ; 37727 ] . |
| 17 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |
| 18 | He said he had been accused of ‘ asset stripping ’ as a prelude to the possibility of Darlington opting out after the next election . |
| 19 | Some of the men had got into the car and he had been accused of ‘ grassing ’ . |