Sentence examples for being sorry for from inspiring English sources
"The lines about being sorry for causing harm to the Chinese government or Chinese state are clearly scripted.
"I meant every word about being sorry for what was written but unfortunately people made it tough to stick by that," he said.
He said, 'OK, but try one more week.' Many nights, lying in the dark, I was sad but I also felt being sorry for myself wasn't worth it.
But she tells the young man that she does feel things -- like being sorry for a grubby man who rushed for a crosstown trolley and just missed it.
One might also point to "Reindeer Games," last year's movie about an ex-con manipulated into participating in a Christmas Eve casino robbery, in which Charlize Theron may have had occasion to experience the redemptive act of being sorry for her lying, cheating, thieving, murdering ways before she met her well-deserved demise.
He only gets a C- for this effort, however, since as we all know, the trick here is not to apologise at all but to say you're sorry, playing on the ambiguity between being sorry for doing something wrong and sorry that something you said or did provoked a certain reaction.
