Example sentences of "was sorry for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was sorry for her . |
| 2 | Jane found her an exhausting girl ( she was twenty-six ) and yet she was sorry for her . |
| 3 | ‘ I loved my mother , ’ said Irina , ‘ at least I was sorry for her . |
| 4 | I was sorry for her , but in my opinion she had only herself to blame for being in such a mess , and I was smugly self-satisfied that the problems were hers and not mine . |
| 5 | Carrie was sorry for her , though she felt very uncomfortable . |
| 6 | I was sorry for her , but what could I do ? |
| 7 | ‘ I was sorry for her , afterwards , ’ said Sam . |
| 8 | She was a good deal teased by children playing in the parks , according to one park-keeper who was sorry for her and tried to help her , and once had her bags snatched by a gang of youths . |
| 9 | She was sorry for him , but she was no shrink . |
| 10 | I was sorry for him . |
| 11 | She was sorry for him . |
| 12 | It was impossible to be nervous of someone you were sorry for , and she was sorry for him . |
| 13 | " Aunt Alicia was sorry for you . " |
| 14 | Looking up , she saw her old mistress understood perfectly her misery and confusion and was sorry for it but there was also an air of what looked remarkably like satisfaction about her . |
| 15 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |