Example sentences of "[pron] of have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd suspected them of having an affair for a while , but they had both kept their tracks well covered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After another term , I was given more art , and my class-room became an unofficial art room , much to the distress of the caretaker , who accused me of having the dirtiest class-room in the school ! |
| 5 | When I made a television documentary that concluded that there was no evidence for nuclear fusion products , I received a letter from Martin Fleischmann alleging that there was a warrant issued in Utah for the arrest of the film crew , accusing me of having gained ‘ illegal access to the National Cold Fusion Institute ’ and of being a media person masquerading as a scientist . |
| 6 | It smacks to me of having a brain that 's too active by far . |
| 7 | When I described this to M. Bellin , the secretary at the consulate , he told me of having seen an ostrich trying to rape a donkey . |
| 8 | ‘ Except that you were right when you once accused me of having a personal prejudice . |
| 9 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Eccles ( Miss Lestor ) for having tabled the question , which otherwise the Opposition might have accused me of having planted . |
| 10 | It always amuses me when Liberal Democrats accuse me of having a ministerial career . |
| 11 | ‘ He chose that moment to accuse me of having someone else . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You accused me of having a lover and I chose not to deny it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You did n't accuse me of having an affair with him then , so why now ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You , Fernando Serra , are either lying through your teeth , putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And you accuse me of having an oversized ego ? |
| 16 | Alayn , unwittingly , boasts to the miller himself of having three times " " swyved " " the miller 's daughter . |
| 17 | Try coping with a party of underprivileged schoolchildren from a housing estate in Manchester with a near-hysterical social worker , a ghetto blaster and some crisp bags to sniff glue , two glum shaven-headed squaddies with flatulence , and a computer programmer from Maidstone who wants to tell you about why his promotion fell through , and then with one eye twitching , accuses you of having stolen his processed cheese . |
| 18 | ‘ You think it is fun , discovering that the only woman in the world you would like to marry suspects you of having a seriously flawed character ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He accused you of having abandoned him , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It is obvious that a government agency for denationalization can not pride itself of having any ‘ historical background ’ , and whereas the pre-war Hungarian stock exchange followed the pattern of Vienna , Frankfurt , Berlin , and Paris , the new legislation tried to make use of all modern concepts ( which is specifically true of laws against insider trading ) . |
| 21 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 22 | I wish we of had that knowledge when |
| 23 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 24 | The Aquino government accuses him of having stolen up to US$10bn ( £6.1bn ) from the country during his reign . |
| 25 | The IRA statement of responsibility had incorrectly named another man , the brother of a well-known Belfast republican , as the victim of the shooting , accusing him of having a bizarre paramilitary career stretching for more than a decade . |
| 26 | He was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when Whittaker Chambers , a renegade and self-confessed Communist ‘ spy ’ then on the staff of Time magazine , accused him of having passed him documents from the State Department during the late 1930s . |
| 27 | He felt a great deal of anger towards his wife and really wanted to express it to her but she had cheated him , as he saw it , by deliberately having an accident and dying and therefore depriving him of having the opportunity to say what he felt . |
| 28 | Now , six months after an American biographer , Donald Spoto , did a hatchet job on Olivier , accusing him of having a homosexual affair with Danny Kaye , the key is to be removed from its resting place . |
| 29 | In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker . |
| 30 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |