Example sentences of "guilty [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles felt guilty for not having recognised the seriousness of the actor 's state . |
| 2 | He was a Southerner and a devout Catholic , like Moro himself , and I think he felt guilty for not having made more of the best chance anyone had so far had to rescue his hero . |
| 3 | She felt suddenly , hopelessly guilty for not having found out all about Mrs Denham before arriving . |
| 4 | I , too , felt guilty for never having known poverty . |
| 5 | One feels guilty about not having understood better what was going on . |
| 6 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 7 | But the mother then feels guilty at not having wanted the baby , and compensates by spoiling . |