Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel responsible for them . |
| 2 | " I feel responsible for her . " |
| 3 | ‘ You also have to eat , ’ he pointed out reasonably , ‘ and since I feel responsible for your having missed lunch , not to mention tea , I insist . ’ |
| 4 | Shelley said miserably , ‘ I feel responsible for this . |
| 5 | It was the kind of life that ‘ was making life miserable in the extreme for her and since I felt responsible for her it was making me miserable too . |
| 6 | Early in life she had managed to change roles with me , so that I felt responsible for her , rather than she for me . |
| 7 | How I hated my elders for their frailty , for making me feel responsible for them . |
| 8 | Admittedly he is more explicit than the other two in detailing traits , such as unusual forms of thinking , which seem responsible for both psychotic symptomatology and creative production . |
| 9 | Where there was one British Leyland until February this year , there are now four companies — including Leyland Daf Trucks in Thame , which remains responsible for sales and marketing of trucks in Great Britain . |
| 10 | If you do , you remain responsible for your child even while you 're out and if anything goes wrong , you 'd be held responsible for your babysitter 's welfare , too . |
| 11 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 12 | Have you ever created a conflict situation yourself with someone you consider responsible for hurting you in some way , perhaps even years before ? |
| 13 | ‘ You felt responsible for what happened to Leakey , ’ I said soothingly . |
| 14 | She felt responsible for Dana , but why did she ? |
| 15 | Whenever a module is created in LIFESPAN it is assigned to a module manager , who remains responsible for it as long as it exists ( or until another user is assigned to the module ) . |
| 16 | Among those she held responsible for her party 's defeat was the President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan who , she claimed , had " wanted to keep the PPP out " . |
| 17 | She ‘ takes comfort in the idea that there is no cure for anything ever ’ , but her self-doubt makes her feel responsible for her friends . |
| 18 | Asked what they thought responsible for declining behaviour among young people , 43 per cent of all those questioned blamed the breakdown of the family — the same number who pointed the finger at housing conditions . |
| 19 | Under the rules of 1865 they remained responsible for their publications after they had seen them into print . |
| 20 | Emmanuel Mounier and the young collaborationist intellectuals of Jeune France were the first to propose the idea of a State culture to counter the empty capitalist hedonism , which they held responsible for the moral catastrophe of 1940 . |
| 21 | Government troops killed over 40 Tamils whom they held responsible for the Aug. 6 incidents , after Wijeratne had declared that " we will show no mercy to these Tamil terrorists , criminals who do not deserve to live " . |
| 22 | Calling on the government to honour pledges of land and credit made to the contras before their demobilization in June [ see p. 37450 ] , they had also demanded the dismissal of former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra as C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces , and the resignation of Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Minister of the Presidency , and Carlos Hurtado Cabrera , Minister of the Interior , whom they held responsible for the October economic pact between the government and the opposition Sandinista-controlled unions [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 23 | The durations prescribed by the Royal College when it became responsible for the curriculum and examination have steadily increased . |
| 24 | His natural ability with figures soon earned him promotion to a trusted position , where he became responsible for most of the financial undertakings of the firm . |
| 25 | He became responsible for all of the Bruce family interests , including their right to the throne , and was appointed a Guardian of Scotland in the absence of his young uncle , David II . |
| 26 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 27 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |
| 28 | He also said he felt responsible for the Flemish lady who , being royally connected , ought to be well looked after . ’ |
| 29 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 30 | He felt responsible for having Bragad here . |