Example sentences of "[conj] accuse [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 3 | A new book criticising Hollywood 's current output and accusing it of undermining traditional values has provoked fierce debate in the US . |
| 4 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 5 | Everyone in the playground was staring at her , and any minute now Miss Hardbroom ( Mildred 's terrifying form-mistress from the previous year ) was bound to appear and accuse her of upsetting a poor new girl . |
| 6 | Because once the vigorous discussion , rarely does anyone sit and accuse us of having had clearly party political discussions , we had a job of work to do and as a result of that job of work is in front of you now in items one and two . |
| 7 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |
| 8 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 9 | He arrived in record time and accused me of bullying tactics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | SHORTLY after Aisling Rodgers was born a woman approached her parents and accused them of pouring scalding water over the baby . |
| 13 | In March of the following year , when the feuding between the UDA and the UVF reached the point of tit-for-tat assassination , Paisley called on Protestants to withdraw all support from the paramilitaries and accused them of committing crimes ‘ just as heinous and hellish as those of the IRA ’ . |
| 14 | Pilger then got even more upset and accused him of wanting to produce the Daily Star . |
| 15 | McNeill referred to Jim Smith , his counterpart at St James ' Park , as ‘ insulting ’ and accused him of conducting private business in public . |
| 16 | Pitt 's great parliamentary opponent , Charles James Fox and his supporters roundly condemned his profligacy in loans to foreign powers , an obvious but overestimated cause of gold drain , and accused him of bringing the country to the point of bankruptcy . |
| 17 | Anna was so frightened she grew furiously angry with Peter and screamed at him and accused him of putting God before herself and the children . |
| 18 | The Connell report said £28-a-day recall man Ken Evans had twice failed to raise his flag and accused him of standing too close to the start line . |
| 19 | He says she was abusive and accused him of abducting her child . |
| 20 | She wrote to the Director of Social Work and accused him of lying . |
| 21 | And President Delors was thrust into the centre of the row when Commissioner Ray MacSharry resigned and accused him of backing French interests instead of Europe as a whole . |
| 22 | Mr Tsvangirai 's detention came a day after his Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions denounced the government 's closure of the University of Zimbabwe and accused it of unleashing ‘ brutal state force ’ against opponents . |
| 23 | Appeal Court judge Sir Stephen Brown blamed Nottinghamshire last week for an ‘ unhappy catalogue of errors ’ in a child protection case , and accused it of misusing the Children Act . |
| 24 | In his address on July 15 , Mandela blamed the government for the continuing violence in South Africa 's townships , and accused it of pursuing a " cold-blooded strategy of state terrorism " . |
| 25 | Romana believed the Junta of the Asturias to be ‘ republican ’ in sympathy , and accused it of starving him of supplies . |
| 26 | In early February , the chief of the general staff , General Mikhail Moiseev , sharply attacked the party 's military policies and accused it of failing to stem the tide of anti-military sentiment now sweeping the outlying republics ( 5,000 Lithuanians , for example , recently refused their call-up papers on the ground that the Geneva convention allows people to refuse to serve in the army of an occupying power ) . |
| 27 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 28 | Weill correctly perceived that the voice of the American nation was to be found in the musical , but as this form commanded no intellectual respect , the musical establishment has ever since accused him of selling out politically as well as musically . |