I.
noun
VERB + BLAME
▪ get
▪
My brother broke the window, but I got the ~.
▪ accept , bear , shoulder , take
▪
The company refused to accept any ~ for the damage.
▪ apportion ( esp. BrE ), attach , attribute , lay , pin , place , put
▪
They placed the ~ squarely on the doctor.
▪ share
▪
The government must share the ~ for this confusion.
▪ escape , shift
▪
They tried to shift the ~ onto someone else.
▪ absolve sb from , absolve sb of
▪
He was absolved of all ~.
BLAME + VERB
▪ fall on sb , lie with sb , rest with sb
▪
The ~ lies with the police, who failed to act quickly enough.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ for
▪
He tried to escape ~ for what he did.
PHRASES
▪ lay the ~ at sb's door ( BrE )
▪
The government tried to lay the ~ at the door of the unions.
▪ part of the ~ , a share of the ~
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ unfairly , unjustly
▪ partly
▪ not really
▪
You can't really ~ them for not telling you.
▪ widely
▪
He is widely ~d for masterminding the attacks.
VERB + BLAME
▪ can't , don't
▪
‘I just slammed the phone down when he said that.’ ‘I don't ~ you!’
▪ can hardly
▪
You can hardly ~ Peter for being angry with her.
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪
I don't ~ Jack for the mistake.
▪ on
▪
Whenever something goes wrong, everyone ~s it on me.
PHRASES
▪ be to ~ (for sth)
▪
A spokesman said that bad weather was partly to ~ for the delay.
▪ be widely ~d for sth
▪
The government has been widely ~d for the crisis.
Blame is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ enquiry , ↑ report
Blame is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ failure , ↑ media , ↑ problem , ↑ system , ↑ victim