Example sentences of "blame [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug . |
| 2 | Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't . |
| 3 | Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert . |
| 4 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 5 | But the others could well do a lot of blaming when they realise what you 've been doing . ’ |
| 6 | ’ ’ I charge you , therefore , for the present abjure all fighting but that is forced upon you , when no man can blame if you do valiantly in your own defence . |
| 7 | If an organiser does not co-ordinate and monitor and know exactly what 's going on at each stage , then ultimately he has only himself to blame if something goes wrong . |
| 8 | She had no one but herself to blame if she 'd fallen hook , line and sinker in love . |
| 9 | The pilot who takes a chance is always to blame if he creates an unnecessary hazard . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , he said it did n't mean anything , so you 've only got yourself to blame if you did n't believe him , ’ Kathleen told herself glumly . |
| 11 | With the exception of Paul Nilon 's delightfully zany Count Belfiore , the principal roles were in some danger of being upstaged by the slightly lesser ones ( Nilon is not to blame if it remains incredible that any woman , let alone two , should fall in love with such a bizarre creature ) . |
| 12 | Those who fall for drunkards and drug addicts have only themselves to blame if it goes wrong which it nearly always does . |
| 13 | There was none but yourself to blame if it ended in tears . |
| 14 | They are collectively responsible for appointments , making it less likely that one person will be unreasonably held to blame if anything goes wrong . |
| 15 | He is to blame because we produce too little , export too little and import too much . |
| 16 | Lamarckism was the only morally acceptable theory of evolution , and Darwin was all the more to blame because he had concealed the fact that better mechanisms of evolution than his own had been proposed long before the Origin of Species was published . |
| 17 | If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors . |
| 18 | Society 's to blame when you come right down to it . |
| 19 | But the keeper was to blame when he missed a simple cross and Allen scored with ease . |