Sentence examples similar to I regretfully refuse from inspiring English sources

I got a very nice letter from the librarian, saying she must regretfully refuse, because they did not have either a manuscript collection or a curator.

"After consultation by an expert, we must regretfully refuse your articles for publication.

I regretfully left the company to return to MIT to pursue my graduate studies.

And I regretfully have to admit, the past several weeks have been good, just good.

• To the Editor: After a career in public service, I regretfully say, I would not do it again.

In the years since, I have tried to reconcile Ernest's fear of the F.B.I., which I regretfully misjudged, with the reality of the F.B.I. file.

"Can I get everybody?" I regretfully inform her that I'm not in the group as Rooney and DeMarcus walk over for the picture.

I regretfully acknowledge that many innocent civilians will be hurt.

I regretfully have to say he passed at 1 35 p.m.,' " Harris recalls.

Since then, I have learned some of the history that I regretfully never picked up in school.

This is wholly unacceptable, Mr President, and therefore I regretfully had to abstain.