Writing "I'm sorry you're sad," for instance, doesn't actually mean that you are sad yourself — only that you have become aware of someone else's emotion and are acknowledging it.
Blue Smoke, for instance.
Mr. Hancock, for instance, feels sorry for the British celebrities whom the News Corporation's papers didn't consider important enough to put on the voice-mail-hacking list.
(For instance, "No, sorry, I'm busy" would have been a more useful alternative than "Sure, anytime" in the example above).
For instance, we say "sorry" when someone else bumps into us, and take too much notice of queueing while pretending not to.
For instance, "I am sorry I forgot your birthday after all these years.
There are, for instance, a dozen inflections of the word sorry.
For instance, you could say something like, "I'm really sorry I stayed out past curfew.
"I am really sorry for everyone," said Mr. Tsiskaridze, who described Mr. Dmitrichenko as "an explosive person — he might throw a punch, for instance".
