Example sentences of "she be sorry for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , her children are quite young and erm and I , I think she 's sorry for what she 's done . |
| 2 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 3 | Jane found her an exhausting girl ( she was twenty-six ) and yet she was sorry for her . |
| 4 | Clarissa opened her door and said she was sorry for being so hopeless on the telephone . |
| 5 | She was sorry for Zambia , but it really was n't her problem . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Aware of further frosty looks from Seb 's parents Nutty looked suitably repentant and said she was sorry for trespassing . |
| 8 | She was sorry for him , but she was no shrink . |
| 9 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 10 | The others seemed to forget Heathcliff , but I noticed Catherine could not eat much , and I knew she was sorry for her friend . |
| 11 | She was sorry for him . |
| 12 | Lavinia wanted to say she was sorry for Timothy Gedge , but did not because it did n't seem true . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | It was impossible to be nervous of someone you were sorry for , and she was sorry for him . |
| 15 | She was sorry for Therese Aschmann , but she had no energy left for anything except getting through her own part . |
| 16 | She was sorry for this little man and his problem but she was in a tearing hurry . |