Example sentences of "sorry that 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 . ’ |