Example sentences of "blame [pron] for not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 2 | As she held her mother , she noticed how thin she 'd become and Hari blamed herself for not realizing sooner how sick mam was . |
| 3 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 4 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 5 | But Dubcek was not as popular at home where some still blamed him for not standing up to the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and therefore being responsible for a 23year military occupation by Soviet forces . |
| 6 | Blaming myself for not bringing them together . |
| 7 | ‘ I was hoping someone would come , but I ca n't blame them for not waiting all this time . |
| 8 | I did n't really blame you for not wanting me to come near you , but it was n't a particularly pleasant experience to realise that I 'd put someone I 'd loved through such an appalling time . |
| 9 | Of Ben Jones there was no sign and Hari sighed , she could hardly blame him for not waiting , she had been in the theatre for over an hour . |
| 10 | I ca n't blame her for not admitting anything : we have only just met . |
| 11 | Kersey watched the gulls and tried various gambits to draw him out , succeeding at last : ‘ I suppose Sara 's story is credible and you ca n't altogether blame her for not coming out with it sooner . ’ |
| 12 | Ideally , you need a few minutes to settle comfortably before setting off , but if you have to rush you can usually blame yourself for not getting in before he cable or towplane arrives . |
| 13 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 14 | Blame me for not preventing it , I dare say . ’ |
| 15 | Thus , Marxists blame him for not anticipating Marx , war between classes as they define them ; and the need , as they see it , for a frontal attack upon rights in property . |