Example sentences of "accuse they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 " .
2 When Israel proclaimed the committees illegal , accusing them of receiving ‘ PLO money ’ , UNLU answered :
3 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 .
4 Zilog has filed a complaint against two subsidiaries of Nippon Electric in the US , accusing them of copying its Z80 microprocessor .
5 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 .
6 Throughout July the talks became more acrimonious with the Democrats unable to agree upon a deficit reduction package amongst themselves , and the Republicans accusing them of negotiating in bad faith .
7 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 .
8 Obiang on Feb. 9 rejected criticism by business managers of this decision , accusing them of neglecting the export of Equatorial Guinean goods .
9 THE US National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and gay groups have demanded apologies from Oliver North and several Virginia Republicans , accusing them of making derogatory jokes about blacks and homosexuals at a Republican dinner .
10 It 's like — accusing them of lying .
11 Unless of course , you 're accusing them of rigging things ? ’
12 He then gave a press conference in which he launched a fierce attack upon the Democrats , accusing them of failing to produce any deficit reduction proposals and of playing politics with the budget issue .
13 Skerne Park residents who were delighted when the traffic-slowing plans were approved are now worried by the bus companies ' attitude and are accusing them of putting profit before public service .
14 European mercenaries ruling the Comoros Islands expelled 11 foreign correspondents after seizing their notebooks , film and cassette tapes and accusing them of inciting anti-government demonstrations , said one of the reporters .
15 Even so , like a dog at the bone , The Times was driven to search out the foreign disposition of the garotters , accusing them of abandoning the traditional civility of the traditional English highway robbery : ‘ Without the old challenge and parley in use among highwaymen , your garotter knocks a man 's head against the kerbstone as the best way of getting at his pocket . ’
16 Before the Observer leaked extracts , ministers in the DTI took the view that publication would allow the Labour party to accuse them of jeopardising the rights of any defendants to a fair trial .
17 Parents may shun sport , but one could not accuse them of doing the same with education and , as Haringey 's Clarence Callynder pointed out : ‘ Some overdo it ; they push their kids too much at school .
18 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 ) .
19 Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 A few points here , the quickest being that people do n't accuse their pop heroes of being racists when they make crap records , they accuse them of making crap records .
23 Nicholas Abercrombie and John Urry accuse them of failing to take account of ‘ proletarianizing tendencies ’ within the professional-managerial class .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 . ’
27 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 .
28 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 ’ .
29 He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth .
30 Only Chris Roberts in Melody Maker mounted an attack of any substance when he accused them of sounding ‘ one-dimensional ’ and ‘ piss-poor on mystery and magic . ’
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