[General] She blamed me that I didn't look at my son.

[jasonree123456]

She blamed me that I didn't watch my son.
She blamed me that I didn't look at my son.

How to use "look" in the sentence above?

 

[MikeNewYork]

I would change "that" to "because " in both sentences.

In the second, you could change "at" to "after" or "out for".

 

[emsr2d2]

I find "She blamed me that ..." very unnatural too. In addition to Mike's suggestion to change "that" to "because", I suggest:

She blamed me for not looking out for my son.
She blamed me for not watching [over] my son.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Blamed' sounds to me as if something untoward had happened in consequence of the speaker's not watching the child. Am I right or wrong?

I find "She blamed me that ..." very unnatural too.

Would it be less unnatural if 'in' was added before 'that'?

Not a teacher.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I had the same thought, Matthew.

No, the addition of "in" would not be any better.

 

[Tarheel]

We usually blame something (or someone) for something. For example:

Ron blamed the bad weather for his sour mood.​

 

[Matthew Wai]

'She blamed me for my son's injury consequent on my not watching him.'
Can it be another example?
Not a teacher.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Consequent on" isn't natural in BrE.

She blamed me for my son's injury due to my not watching [over] him [properly].
She blame me for my son's injury because I wasn't watching [over] him [properly].

 

[Matthew Wai]

"Consequent on" isn't natural in BrE.

I found it in a British dictionary: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/consequent

Not a teacher.

 

[tedmc]

This is probably more common:

She blamed me for my son's injury which was a consequence of my not watching [over] him [properly].

not a teacher

 

[Matthew Wai]

She blamed me for my son's injury which was a consequence of my not watching [over] him [properly].

Can 'which was a' simply be replaced with 'in'?

 

[Rover_KE]

I found it in a British dictionary: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/consequent

That's a formal construction which is not colloquial in daily conversation.

In real life, native speakers would not use any version of the OP containing 'consequence' or 'consequent'.

A lawyer probably would.

 

[Tarheel]

'She blamed me for my son's injury consequent on my not watching him.'

At best that's awkward. More likely:

She blamed me for my son's injury. She said I hadn't been watching him properly.
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Also possible:

She blamed me for my son's injury, and she said that if I had been watching him properly it wouldn't have happened.
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[Tarheel]

This is probably more common:

She blamed me for my son's injury, which was a consequence of my not watching [over] him [properly].

That looks like legalese (lawyer talk), which is, thank goodness, not common at all. (See my post just before this one.)

 

[Tarheel]

She blamed me for not watching my son better.

Re:

She blamed me for my son's injury in consequence of my not watching him properly.

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In this sentence the speaker seems to be saying that the blaming is a result of the poor supervision. (Probably true, but that is not, I think, the intended meaning.)

Perhaps:

She held me responsible for my son's injury, claiming that I hadn't watched him properly.​