Sentence examples for by apologising for from inspiring English sources
He starts by apologising for being late.
He begins by apologising for what he calls his "hesitancy".
Anthony finished his email by apologising for its length.
He could start by apologising for his part in the 2002 riots.
Mr Were, who lives in Monmouth, responded by apologising for "any offence" (sic).
Liam responded to Campbell's tweet by apologising for "getting off the on wrong foot", but Campbell did not tweet back.
I also had a brief encounter with Maugham in 1960, recording a radio interview at a literary prize-giving in London, when he began by politely apologising for his stammer.
A gleefully ramshackle version of the 1982 beatnik pop single Jacques Derrida is preceded by Gartside apologising for mispronouncing the French philosopher's name with the stress on the second syllable ("I think this confirmed my status as an autodidact").
By apologising profusely for... well... taking up oxygen, it seems, we make ourselves small, we undermine our strength and actively put ourselves in the position of being unheard, unnoticed and ignored.
Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, or Natalie Cole's Wild Women Do, for example, both diluted their argument somewhat by explaining or apologising for their wayward antics.
"I've only recently finished writing it," he says by way of apologising for the somewhat cluttered state of his office in Brasenose College.
