Example sentences of "suspect [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 2 | He 'd suspected them of having an affair for a while , but they had both kept their tracks well covered . |
| 3 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
| 4 | All that talk about Janus , just to let her know he 'd suspected her of lying . |
| 5 | Surely you no longer suspect me of using you in some devious plan to make Lotta jealous ? ’ |
| 6 | He said : ‘ You 've no reason to suspect me of killing Sabine . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You have accused me of attacking you , are you also going to suspect me of killing her ? ’ |
| 8 | But do n't suspect me of wanting to leave you . |
| 9 | As I was a young girl no one , partisans or Germans , would suspect me of carrying very large sums of money . |
| 10 | I know that they combine a macho enthusiasm for selective violence with a rigid adherence to middle-class morality , but you are n't seriously suggesting that they 'll suspect me of cutting Paul 's throat because I go to bed with his wife ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Although I suppose he might suspect her of fancying me ! |
| 13 | I think that , without convicting her of telling taradiddles to improve her genealogy , we may well suspect her of having allowed Kay to mislead herself . |
| 14 | A few days later , from the bleak room of a grimy hotel , the rain pouring down outside the window , he surveyed his surroundings and wrote forlornly : ‘ Theo , I never suspected her , nor do I now , nor shall I ever suspect her of having had financial motives , more than is honest and just . |
| 15 | No one would suspect her of killing Gebrec ? ’ |
| 16 | Miss and Tony you have to kinda pretend that they do like each other so that erm the mother does n't suspect her of liking Hastings . |
| 17 | She did glance at him then , rather warily , as though suspecting him of trying to ridicule her . |
| 18 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 19 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 20 | ‘ He suspects me of killing Angy and he 's trying to protect you . |
| 21 | ‘ Reading between the lines , ’ said Melissa , ‘ I think he suspects her of killing Alain Gebrec , mistaking him for Erdle . ’ |
| 22 | One suspects him of seeking equivalents in others and in nature . |
| 23 | In the same way it knows enough to tuck itself well out of harm 's way in the face of physical threat , so becoming a much smaller target for an irate wife with a meat cleaver who suspects it of getting exercise elsewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ It would matter to me if anyone suspected me of taking drugs — not just you . ’ |
| 25 | At first , he suspected her of trying to curry favour by pandering to his lust , but later came to the conclusion that it was genuine parental pride . |
| 26 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 27 | Despite his apparent desire , matching the sudden irrational flaring of her own treacherous libido , he still suspected her of having designs on the family fortune , and she would n't be at all surprised to discover that his attempt to kiss her just now had been a sort of test . |
| 28 | Her father glared at her as if he suspected her of having the whole thing arranged behind his back . |
| 29 | He turned to her with a searching expression , as if he suspected her of withholding something . |
| 30 | Dr Farouk Mohamed Ibrahim , a 62-year-old biology lecturer at the University of Khartoum , was arrested on 20 November 1989 , apparently because the Sudanese military authorities suspected him of opposing their policies . |