Example sentences of "[det] sympathy for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 2 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 3 | There was little sympathy for them from club officials , with ‘ apathy ’ one of the words used to describe their attitude . |
| 4 | I was — like Flora with her mother — in the stupid position of being unable to put the one argument that would have made her feel some sympathy for me . |
| 5 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 6 | I ca n't say I feel much sympathy for them . |
| 7 | Huh , you have more sympathy for them than I do . |
| 8 | In this connection Kant is somewhat notorious for sometimes seeming to think it better to help those in need out of a sheer sense of duty , without feeling any sympathy for them , than with feelings of loving kindness . |
| 9 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 10 | Can you work up any sympathy for them ? |
| 11 | It 's their fault , I do n't have any sympathy for them . |
| 12 | I did n't feel any sympathy for her and I felt that … as for the booing , well , everybody gets booed . |