Example sentences of "feel responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had felt responsible for her twin since their mother had died two years ago . |
| 2 | They may feel responsible for adding to the dead person 's problems or may feel that if they had been more alert they would have noticed their friend 's or relative 's distress . |
| 3 | The more you thrust forward your ideas , your solutions , your methods , the less the subordinate will feel responsible for his own actions , and hence committed . |
| 4 | How I hated my elders for their frailty , for making me feel responsible for them . |
| 5 | They may feel responsible for the racial injustice which other white people have inflicted on blacks , and see these injustices as entailing all manner of pathology for the black community , with its strengths and survival denied or not recognised . |
| 6 | no well because your looking down on every body else you tend to feel erm , well I feel sort of that you 've got to er feel responsible for them and look after them |
| 7 | Erm so I think possibly people do n't really feel responsible for that , for those , that space within the flats which is n't actually right outside their front door . |
| 8 | You need n't feel responsible for me from now on in the slightest . ’ |
| 9 | However , as your elected officers we do feel responsible for ensuring that as a national organisation ; we continue to survive and grow which means above all that we have a continual influx of new members . |
| 10 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 11 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel responsible for them . |
| 14 | " I feel responsible for her . " |
| 15 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Shelley said miserably , ‘ I feel responsible for this . |
| 18 | So we identified with the hedgehog , and felt responsible for it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He also said he felt responsible for the Flemish lady who , being royally connected , ought to be well looked after . ’ |
| 21 | Families also need support , she said , especially if they trusted the paedophile and felt responsible for allowing the abuse to occur . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 24 | Early in life she had managed to change roles with me , so that I felt responsible for her , rather than she for me . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe he still felt responsible for her . |
| 26 | It was Tess who worried and worked and felt responsible for her little brothers and sisters . |
| 27 | He felt responsible for having Bragad here . |
| 28 | She felt responsible for Dana , but why did she ? |
| 29 | ‘ You felt responsible for what happened to Leakey , ’ I said soothingly . |
| 30 | There is also a Darwinian reason that we believe in free will : A society in which the individual feels responsible for his or her actions is more likely to work together and survive to spread its values . |