Sentence examples for requests sorry from inspiring English sources

There are less obvious ways of marking politeness in English: use a question ("Could you pass the … " instead of "Pass the …"), express some doubt ("I don't suppose you could … ") and apologise, even for small requests ("Sorry to bother you, but …").

As a second possibility, if he doesn't happen to have the requested card in front of him, he might want to respond by rejecting the request ("sorry, no", "I am terribly sorry but I do not have it").

That was followed by a U.S. outage the following month, which led the assistant to respond to requests with "sorry, something went wrong".

P.M.S.: Sorry, sorry, sorry!

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

The airport's spokesman added: "Heathrow will be holding public meetings with residents where they are requested and is sorry for those who have temporarily experienced more noise than usual during these trials".

It was the third time Apple (sorry, Slate Computing) requested this Request for Extension of Time to File a Statement of Use, and it was approved by the USPTO on March 26.

Mincing and prefacing comments or requests with "I'm sorry" and "excuse me" invites people to perceive you as weak or submissive.