Example sentences of "[noun] be sorry [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was sorry she 'd missed seeing him , but resumed work , realising that since she was only a very small cog in a big machine Mr Massingham would be too busy to make a second visit , or remember , should he be interested in numbers , that there was one member of staff he had n't met yet . |
| 2 | ( 188 ) You will make the foes of England be sorry you were born . |
| 3 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 4 | Her shift was half over , but Charity was sorry she had agreed to do it . |
| 5 | Joshua was sorry he had turned his back on sunny Brighton . |
| 6 | ‘ Jenny is sorry she inadvertently misled us all , I think . |
| 7 | The girl 's eyes lost their sparkle as the faintest of rumbles came to her ears , and Mr Beckenham was sorry he had drawn her attention to it . |