Example sentences of "[adj] for what [pers pn] had [verb] " 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 . |
| 8 | Laurence Hazell , defending , said Sigsworth was remorseful for what he had done . |