Example sentences of "she was sorry " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane found her an exhausting girl ( she was twenty-six ) and yet she was sorry for her . |
| 2 | Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill . |
| 3 | Clarissa opened her door and said she was sorry for being so hopeless on the telephone . |
| 4 | She was sorry for Zambia , but it really was n't her problem . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was sorry immediately for the outburst . |
| 7 | Aware of further frosty looks from Seb 's parents Nutty looked suitably repentant and said she was sorry for trespassing . |
| 8 | She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school . |
| 9 | She 'd left a note for me , saying she was sorry … |
| 10 | The first thing Maxine said to me when she entered my consulting room was that she hoped she was not wasting my time and she was sorry she was being so stupid . |
| 11 | Benny has said she was sorry . |
| 12 | She was sorry about the tension between them . |
| 13 | Aunt Lilian said she was sorry she had upset me . |
| 14 | A WIDOW whose arm was bitten off by an alligator said yesterday she was sorry the creature was later killed . |
| 15 | She was sorry , but Crispin was out on call . |
| 16 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 17 | She was sorry she had laughed at Thomas . |
| 18 | It would n't have hurt her to say she was sorry . ’ |
| 19 | I spoke again to Nan-Nan , and she said she was sorry I should have found out like that . |
| 20 | She was sorry for him , but she was no shrink . |
| 21 | In showing this place to her and wanting to see her walking in it , he was making her a deep gesture of friendship ; she was sorry that she did not care more . |
| 22 | She wanted to say that she was sorry too , but tears choked her and she was unable to speak . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She said it was to say she was sorry . |
| 25 | When they woke Maureen told Anne that she was sorry she had snapped at her . |
| 26 | When he gave her his opinion of this , she merely replied that she was sorry he felt like that , and ended the conversation . |
| 27 | The woman repeated that she was sorry . |
| 28 | ‘ Said she was anxious to see the lad settled and she was sorry if she was being a bore . ’ |
| 29 | He had done what she had wanted and now she was sorry . |
| 30 | I could forgive her anything when she came to say she was sorry . |