blame _verb 

ADVERBS

always 
・You can’t always blame other people for what happens.

unfairly
・I felt that I was being unfairly blamed for their problems.

widely
・The authorities have been widely blamed for making the situation worse.

PREPOSITIONS

for
・Marie still blames herself for Patrick’s death.

on
・Don’t try to blame everything on me.

PHRASES

be the one to blame 
・I’m the only one to blame for what has happened.

be partly to blame
・Some people think that television is partly to blame for the increase in violence among young people.

have no one to blame but yourself
・He should have checked that there was enough fuel in the car, so he has no one to blame but himself.

blame _noun

VERBS

get  
・I always get the blame for his mistakes!
・Sam knew that if something went wrong, he’d get the blame.

take, accept, shoulder
・No one was prepared to take the blame for the disaster.
・Do you accept any blame for what happened?
・Parents must shoulder the blame if their kids behave badly.

put, pin, lay, place 
・Don’t try to put the blame on me.
・Everyone laid the blame for the crisis on the government.

shift
・She always tried to shift the blame onto her brother.

apportion, assign
・He seemed to want to apportion blame for her death.

share
・He admitted he shared the blame for their World Cup defeat.

absolve sb from 
・He was absolved of all blame.

PREPOSITIONS

for
・Much of the blame for the current crisis lies with the government.

PHRASES

accept your share of the blame
・The media must accept its share of the blame for this problem.

point the finger of blame at sb
・I couldn’t believe it when they started pointing the finger of blame at me.

place the blame squarely/firmly on sb
・The investigation placed the blame squarely on the mayor.

the blame lies with sb 
・In this case, the blame lay with the police.