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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.