Example sentences of "accused [pron] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got letters from people recently with big crosses on them , people who 've accused me of using my lyrics to subvert people . |
| 4 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 5 | Yet already you have accused me of trying to endanger your mother 's life through risky water sports . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You have accused me of attacking you , are you also going to suspect me of killing her ? ’ |
| 8 | They 've accused you of making water in the King 's palace , refusing to take all the enemy 's ships , refusing to destroy all the Big-Endians , seeing the enemy 's officials privately , and planning to visit Blefuscu in order to help the enemy against Lilliput . ’ |
| 9 | I ought never to have accused you of letting him die . |
| 10 | GM has now accused him of taking industrial secrets as well . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | After all he was doing for her , she had virtually accused him of trying to seduce her . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | Once , Jean-Paul had accused him of acting like God , and that accusation had stayed with him , paining him . |
| 15 | She had accused him of leading her on . |
| 16 | Nutty had once accused him of giving his mare extra feed at night because she was fatter than all the others , but it was true : he did give her extra . |
| 17 | One newspaper has accused him of lying . |
| 18 | Maybe she had accused him of doing appalling things with Badger . |
| 19 | Perhaps spotting a chink in Clinton 's armour , the Republicans have further accused him of stirring up feeling against the war . |
| 20 | the only bad news to come out of Cambridge was that Swindon 's Micky Hazard could be in trouble with the FA and the police who 've accused him of inciting the crowd |
| 21 | She 'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 24 | The local council has accused him of running a business from his home . |
| 25 | She recalled his expression as he had accused her of knowing where Garry was , and she knew he was n't the kind of man to give up easily . |
| 26 | He had not accused her of killing the Pitts , but he had certainly hinted that she was capable of it . |
| 27 | For , unlike Jake , Douglas had never accused her of having cheated Ryan out of his fortune — in spite of the fact that , like the rest of the family , he had never known the tragic truth about his son . |
| 28 | No one could have accused her of neglecting Emily recently . |
| 29 | Ransome Kuti had accused it of instigating the violence in order to thwart the handover to civilian rule scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 30 | The Taiwanese government passed legislation in harmony with the regulations of CITES ( the UN 's Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ) in 1989 , although environmentalists have since accused it of failing to enforce these laws sufficiently . |