Example sentences of "him of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 120(3) makes it an offence for a promoter or participant to receive any payment or the benefit of any payments which some other participant is induced to make by reason that the prospect is held out to him of receiving payments or other benefits for introducing other persons into the scheme . |
| 2 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 3 | His father-in-law accused him of breaking his marriage vows and questioned his integrity as a Privy Councillor . |
| 4 | But a charge against him of swearing at Stephen Hendry was quashed . |
| 5 | While the Premier had fun in the sun , Labour 's Mr Brown bowled him a bumper by accusing him of REFUSING to act and REFUSING to speak . |
| 6 | The charges , filed in January 1989 , had accused him of ordering the shooting in 1986 of John O'Connor , an official of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [ see p. 36680 ] . |
| 7 | One minute you say trustfully that he contains only soya meal and the next you suspect him of harbouring chunks of minced-up nameless anatomy . |
| 8 | A Democrat senator , Patrick V. Leahy ( Vermont ) , accused him of undergoing a temporary " confirmation conversion " , a charge that gained credence when the nominee disavowed natural law theory , despite his previous statements that individuals were subject to laws of a higher order which had precedence over man-made laws . |
| 9 | For shocked managing director 's wife Anne Bevins accused him of producing ‘ hard-core pornography ’ in her office . |
| 10 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that the men had struggled after Mr Kerr 's girlfriend had attacked Cardow , accusing him of damaging her mother 's car . |
| 11 | We may not always be completely happy with the published data we find in the Registrar-General 's reviews but we can not accuse him of using secondary sources when his organization has , in fact , collected all the information at first hand from the people themselves . |
| 12 | Despite his apology , a religious court convicted him of using insulting language . |
| 13 | But a religious court convicted him of using insulting language and ordered 50 lashes with a 6ft bamboo cane . |
| 14 | But a religious court convicted him of using insulting language and ordered the flogging . |
| 15 | That morning Branson was inundated by telephone calls from his colleagues , accusing him of plotting to destroy them . |
| 16 | They accused him of dressing up as a woman to seduce his enemies , and of fancying Elmer Fudd . |
| 17 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 18 | Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788–1860 ) accuses him of holding that animals are mere things : ‘ Thus only for practice are we to have sympathy for animals ’ ( Regan and Singer 1976 : 125 ) . |
| 19 | It was as sharp as Tim 's had been when Oliver accused him of stealing . |
| 20 | The Court smoked him out and convicted him of supplying the stuff . |
| 21 | After visiting Herzen in London he accused him of substituting passion for reason . |
| 22 | McNeill referred to Jim Smith , his counterpart at St James ' Park , as ‘ insulting ’ and accused him of conducting private business in public . |
| 23 | But Muawad spent his first year in Parliament as an exile in the Syrian port city of Lattakia , after a member of a rival family accused him of taking part in an inter-clan clash in June 1957 near Zghotra in which 16 people were killed . |
| 24 | GM has now accused him of taking industrial secrets as well . |
| 25 | Mr Teague accused him of taking a sheath knife to one of the Roberts ' foster sons and saying ‘ no body messes with the Godfather of Gwalchmai . ’ |
| 26 | Taking money when he 'd got erm he accuses him of taking a bribe when |
| 27 | In reply , Gorbachev in his Oct. 19 Supreme Soviet address lashed out at Yeltsin , accusing him of getting " carried away trying to mount a show of strength " by demanding creation of a radical coalition government . |
| 28 | Then with great clarity and anguish he remembered the moment when Westerman had put his question about a moral lead from the press , and instead of answering at once the idea had come to him of leaning forward and judiciously stubbing out his cigarette . |
| 29 | Iranian media attacked President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during November , accusing him of serving Western interests , and also criticized the Gulf Co-operation Council for " defending UAE allegations " [ see this page ] . |
| 30 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |