Example sentences of "sorry for what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No , ’ said Mrs Darrell violently to McAllister , who was dipping a curtsy , and beginning a stammering apology , but only because Dr Neil had asked her , not because she was sorry for what she had done .
2 Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse .
3 ‘ The poor man , ’ a contemporary recorded , ‘ had little to say but that he was sorry for what he had done , and wept like a child . ’
4 Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life .
5 She believed he was ’ sorry for what he had done .
6 Lee Don Lau called his parents in Singapore to say he was sorry for what he had done .
7 Oliver felt so small in his hands that he was suddenly sorry for what he had said .
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