Example sentences of "who can blame [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 She looks very disbelieving , and who can blame her ?
2 IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ?
3 And who can blame him ?
4 Of course , a more aggressive player will probably want Frostblades and other such damage-inflicting weapons and who can blame him ?
5 And who can blame him ?
6 He wants to get ashore , and who can blame him ?
7 You would n't think there was a war on , the way the tourists ca n't stay away , but who can blame them in weather like this ?
8 Who can blame them when most traditional methods of weight control fail in the long term ?
9 Having said all of this my experience with patients is that very few of them persist in taking their LM remedy until they begin to prove it and who can blame them !
10 And who can blame them ?
11 With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news .
12 Who can blame them ?
13 An enormous amount of skill , equipment , patience , money and sheer luck goes into the breeding of new varieties , and if it has become customary to have to be seen to be introducing six , eight , ten , a dozen or whatever new varieties every year in order to be regarded as one of the top flight nurseries , then that is what they have to do — and who can blame them for wanting to recoup their investment by selling all they can ?
14 The markets forced it down because they doubted the government 's willingness to keep interest rates high in a sagging economy — and who can blame them ?
15 If , after years of persecution , these huge , lumbering , myopic creatures are sometimes a mite cantankerous , who can blame them ?
16 Who can blame them ?
17 The Evertonian crowd are the most miserable supporters ever , but who can blame them — glory hunters from the eighties the lot of them .
18 And who can blame them if , after all , the right to keep 1,000 ewes is worth in excess of £40,000 .
19 Jump into a cold swimming-pool , for example , and who can blame your frozen phallus from shrinking away to a delightfully compact inch or so .
20 But who can blame you ?
21 Who can blame you ?
22 ‘ If we did , ’ said Andrus , ‘ who can blame us ? ’
  Next page