1. Bo was left to take the rap for Victor's murder.

2. She was prepared to take the rap for the shoplifting, though it had been her sister's idea.

3. Ed Vulliamy Who should take the rap?

4. He has set up his neighbour to take the rap for a very nasty murder.

5. I'm not going to take the rap for you.

6. Black holes of varying sizes take the rap for fusillades of radiation and plasma that astronomers observe all over the cosmos.

7. I don't want to take the rap for Mary,() who forgot to mail the check in time.

8. And it is these bit players who nearly always take the rap, rather than white-collar drug lords such as Amado Carrillo.

9. It is the incentives under which financial users and providers operate that should take the rap and which require attention.

10. What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices.

11. People like you usually arrange it so that people like Gleeson take the rap.

12. Yet it seems acceptable for sporting events and sportsmen and women to take the rap, and their careers be sacrificed, over something that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

13. But Mr Abhisit knows that in the calculus of Thailand's political demonstrations, his government would be likely to take the rap for a bloody confrontation, were anyone to overreact.

14. When these things go wrong, the government tends to take the rap.

15. "When the team hasn't done well it is the defenders who take the rap, " Benitez said in the Daily Star Sunday.