Example sentences of "[pron] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't I of kept the exam |
| 2 | He had suspected someone of forging letters from Walter Machin . |
| 3 | When Israel proclaimed the committees illegal , accusing them of receiving ‘ PLO money ’ , UNLU answered : |
| 4 | We believe that if this practice became general , consumers would become better aware both of the advantages to them of establishing a ‘ good ’ credit record and of their potential part in putting right any rare mistakes in their credit record . |
| 5 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 6 | It may be necessary therefore to circulate all personnel to advise them of ordering procedure and nominated staff . |
| 7 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 8 | And if he differed from his contemporaries in ethical matters , it was only because he accused them of taking the Old Testament commands too lightly and superficially . |
| 9 | He followed up his earlier limited charge of praemunire against selected churchmen with a similar charge against the whole of the English clergy , accusing them of exercising a spiritual jurisdiction that conflicted with their duty as his subjects . |
| 10 | The authorities categorically rejected a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International in May 1989 which accused them of torturing political prisoners by subjecting them to beatings or sexual abuse . |
| 11 | And lot 's of them of stopped that |
| 12 | Unfortunately I regard it as clear that although the consequences to them of operating a commercial port were reasonably plain from the beginning , insufficient thought was given to the question of access to the port before planning permission was granted . |
| 13 | On May 30 , amid tight security , Bhutto visited Hyderabad where she blamed both the MQM and the Sindhi nationalist Jiye Sind movement for the latest upsurge in violence , accusing them of seeking a " reign of terror " in Sind . |
| 14 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 15 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 16 | Roger L'Estrange produced a pamphlet condemning the Whigs and Nonconformists as republicans , accusing them of wanting to " pursue their Revenge on us [ the Church of England ] " , and he asked " Whether the Clergy of the C. of E. are not concern 'd to be as diligent against Phanaticism now , as of late against Popery " . |
| 17 | Zilog has filed a complaint against two subsidiaries of Nippon Electric in the US , accusing them of copying its Z80 microprocessor . |
| 18 | Before the finale , when he mystifyingly decided they were more important than they 'll ever know , ’ he accused them of speaking ‘ piffle , tosh and cynicism . ’ |
| 19 | Members of trade unions and other grass roots organisations have been particular targets of killings and ‘ disappearances ’ by the armed forces , who have accused them of supporting the armed opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) . |
| 20 | He 'd suspected them of having an affair for a while , but they had both kept their tracks well covered . |
| 21 | In an interview in The Washington Post published on May 30 , Barry admitted having smoked crack but blamed the federal authorities for having led him on and accused them of having tried to " kill " him by allowing him to consume the illegal drug . |
| 22 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 23 | He accuses them of running up a hundred million pound debt during their years in control , and says the Tories are wrong to go along with them . |
| 24 | SHORTLY after Aisling Rodgers was born a woman approached her parents and accused them of pouring scalding water over the baby . |
| 25 | However , there is still not enough help available at the moment to the families of the mentally disordered despite the costs to them of caring for severely handicapped or disturbed relatives . |
| 26 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
| 27 | He subsequently accused them of attempting to blackmail the government , and threatened to place their operations under military control if they attempted further action . |
| 28 | A member of the Leeds ' band Hang The Dance , Roman Remeynes , contacted The Wedding Present after hearing the Ukrainian session and accused them of bastardising the music . |
| 29 | The Leeds players are in search of some away form motivated by a warning from coach Mick Hennigan , who this week accused some of them of becoming ‘ celebrities ’ after the title win last April . |
| 30 | Indeed , after the three defendants successfully appealed against the prison sentences she accused them of endangering British youth : |