Example sentences of "be [adv] sorry [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these entered the popular literature and is still repeated by journalists , despite the fact that Hugh McClean , who , in admitting his part in the Shankill UVF killings , is supposed to have said : ‘ I am terribly sorry I ever heard of that man Paisley or decided to follow him ’ , later denied making such a statement to the police . |
| 2 | ‘ I am only sorry you ever were put to it , and glad out of all measure that you came out of it without worse harm . |
| 3 | I know that members and non-members alike have found them useful , and I am only sorry I missed the October one . |
| 4 | I am so sorry I could not revert to the ‘ phone at the very moment you rang on Thursday . |
| 5 | ‘ We are so sorry my dear . |
| 6 | I am not sorry I undertook the captaincy again — I genuinely wanted to do it successfully . |
| 7 | And I learned so many things , ’ she said , ‘ I am not sorry I did it , not at all , even if it was desperately hard work . ’ |
| 8 | I am just sorry it has all ended in this way . |
| 9 | ‘ So you 're not sorry you made love to me that night ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 're awful sorry you ai n't got no fam'ly , nor no 'ome , ’ said Linda . |
| 11 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 12 | but of course , er three or four days later , you 're very sorry you did n't pose that question the minute they er put their foot on er |
| 13 | I mean erm you know erm when I go to the London Group erm we all know that erm actually er there 's a kind of , there 's an inner feeling you know well we 've got the right computers , we , we 're the you know , we , we believe computing and we , we 're very sorry you know we 're erm we may not actively despise them , but we , we 're sorry that they have to bother with such an awful operating system and everything else . |
| 14 | I 'm bitterly sorry I behaved so stupidly towards you , but — I can promise I 'll never marry another man while you want me to be your wife , but — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm only sorry you were not happy with our service . |
| 16 | I 'm only sorry you have to put up with it too . ’ |
| 17 | " Well , dear , I 'm only sorry it did n't work . |
| 18 | I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I did n't come to Israel 20 years ago . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm only sorry I had a prior engagement , otherwise I 'd have been here much earlier . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I had to bring you out in it . ’ |
| 22 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 23 | He thought : You 're going to be so sorry you ever said that , you ridiculous fop , you silly tart , you piece of shit . |
| 24 | Knowing how much his brother had meant to him and how happy Jonathan 's slow progress towards regaining his health had made him , Julia could hardly say , ‘ I 'm so sorry they 're dead . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ A glass of water — I 'm so sorry there 's no ice . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm so sorry you 've had a vain journey . |
| 27 | I 'm so sorry you 're the devil-man 's daughter . |
| 28 | ‘ Gosh , I 'm so sorry I 'm late , I 've had a terrible journey and on top of that I 've got the flu . |
| 29 | When I was silent he came towards me , took my hands , and said with a formal air as if he had prepared this speech , ‘ I 'm so sorry I upset you . |
| 30 | " I 'm so sorry I keep treading on you , I just ca n't help it . |