Example sentences of "sorry for [Wh det] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , Melody , I 'm not sorry for what we did . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse . |
| 4 | ‘ The poor man , ’ a contemporary recorded , ‘ had little to say but that he was sorry for what he had done , and wept like a child . ’ |
| 5 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 6 | Oliver felt so small in his hands that he was suddenly sorry for what he had said . |
| 7 | She believed he was ’ sorry for what he had done . |
| 8 | Lee Don Lau called his parents in Singapore to say he was sorry for what he had done . |
| 9 | I 'm so sorry for what I said . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 12 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 13 | He told Newcastle magistrates : ‘ I 'm sorry for what I did . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you sorry for what you did ? ’ |