Sentence examples for regret to ask from inspiring English sources

Eight months into that giddily well-remunerated Sky Sports contract it is probably time, with all due fond expressions of respect and regret, to ask the obvious question.

According to Wieland Wagner's mistress, the soprano Anja Silja, this was a source of personal regret and remorse for Wieland, who, however, never found a way -- unlike, for example, the recently deceased Gunther Grass -- to publicly acknowledge this shameful past, to publicly express any remorse or regret, or to ask for forgiveness.

By regrets, I mean to ask whether you consider that there might have been any deficiencies in your reporting for the BBC (and indeed in the BBC itself) all those years.

Think the Stronger in EU campaign might regret not allowing media to ask questions at their launch.

I took on MPT in 2012, by which time Danny was struggling with Alzheimer's disease, and I have always regretted not being able to ask him about the early years of the magazine.

Indeed, 42 years after its premiere, Robert Anderson's script still elicits genuinely heartbreaking moments by having its characters grapple with questions of guilt and regret and by leading you to ask similar questions of yourself.

In the anthemic "Bang the Drum Slowly," a song about her father laden with regret, she says: "I meant to ask you... if you ever really were deceived/By the likes of me".

"To ask if I regret leaving the Rolling Stones is to ask the wrong question," he once said.