"accountable for things" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone who you hold responsible for something. For example, "Employees must be accountable for their actions and for any mistakes they make."
How many soldiers have been held accountable for things that happened out there?
We just can't be accountable for things that are beyond the scope of what we can do at the present time.
The commissioner nominally in charge of it, Pedro Solbes, has refused to accept responsibility, telling the European Parliament this month that he could not be held accountable "for things I didn't know about".
They should only hold themselves accountable for things they can control, he says.
According to remarks made by Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday, it seems as if Twitter may be reversing its earlier decision to ban Politwoops, a service that tracked politicians' deleted tweets, holding them accountable for things they wished they hadn't said on the micro-blogging service.
Democrats are held accountable for things that donors or pundits say.
If we hope to improve politician behaviour, however, we must hold them accountable for the things over which they have actual responsibility and control and only those things.
In this day and age, you have to be accountable for the things you say".
"We're being held accountable for many things over which we have no control".
Now I am culpable and accountable for the things that got me to that impasse where I was just running, running, running, with nothing to show for it.
Becoming a parent you go into a different mode: you realise that your actions have consequences and that you should be held accountable for the things you do".
