Example sentences of "accused it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 One sign of the times : the film ‘ Bonfire of the Vanities ’ flopped after critics accused it of being kinder to yuppies than the original Tom Wolfe novel .
3 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 ) .
4 Calpers , with $68 billion under management , is taking advice from American law firm Coubert Brothers after Daiwa Securities paid £320 million in damages to Japanese investors that accused it of tobashi .
5 Some deputies accused it of giving away too many powers to the regions .
6 Sir Alec Clegg , the Education Officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire , accused it of ‘ drenching and bombarding ’ teachers with documents .
7 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 .
8 Romana believed the Junta of the Asturias to be ‘ republican ’ in sympathy , and accused it of starving him of supplies .
9 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 " .
10 There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists .
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