Example sentences of "sorry [conj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 2 | ‘ I am sorry that I could not spare you . ’ |
| 3 | But , although I tried hard , I just could n't … well , I 'm really sorry that I could n't cope with your mother . |
| 4 | I am very sorry that I will not be able to attend the concert at which my hon. Friend will be singing . |
| 5 | I am sorry that I can not be more helpful . |
| 6 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So I 'm sorry if I ca n't help you . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry if I should have told you before . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm sorry if I should n't . |
| 10 | I am sorry if I can not fulfil your request on this point . |
| 11 | No — ’ in answer to Herr Nordern 's promptings — ‘ I 'm truly sorry but I ca n't join you today . |
| 12 | Sorry but I ca n't mention the brand names of such batteries — I do n't want to get sued ! |
| 13 | ‘ I intended it to last for longer this time , meu amor , ’ he said unevenly , ‘ much longer , but I 'm wild with wanting you and I 'm sorry but I ca n't — ’ |
| 14 | I want to first of all express our extreme pleasure for having the arrangements that were made by our good English friends , especially those associated with the Three-Ninetieth missile , well I 'm sorry but I 'll get that missile straightened out , Three-Ninetieth Memorial Air Museum . |
| 15 | I am sorry but I wo n't be in any more . |
| 16 | We had taken 120 carp and 2 cats so the trip could hardly be deemed a ’ cat-astrophe ’ ( sorry but I could n't resist it ) when suddenly one of Rick 's rods was away . |
| 17 | ‘ It was on a bearing of 280 degrees and was already west of the Falklands , so I 'm sorry but I can not see how you can say it was not sailing away from the Falklands when it was sunk . ’ |
| 18 | Tell him that I am very sorry but I can not make exceptions . |
| 19 | Since the book had apparently served the purpose we asked for its return , only to be told by a shamefaced colleague : " I 'm awfully sorry but I can not remember where I put it . " |