Sentence examples for started to apologise from inspiring English sources

The former mayor of London defended Ms Shah when she had already stopped defending herself and started to apologise for being "wrong" and "offensive".

She went to Madrid and immediately the director started to apologise profusely; he had a tiny role in his new project, he explained, but he couldn't imagine anyone else playing it.

I start to apologise that I hadn't brought more but a beaming Nelle – as her friends and family call her – extends her hand.

That's why it feels so awkward talking about all this now, here, with you …" I start to apologise, but he brushes it away.

He was, to put it mildly, "literary", in a time when some who should have known better were starting to apologise for that quality.

They called me over to watch them go through it, and, for some reason, I thought it would be funny to say, "Careful when you open that, it might explode!" [Editor's note: This is illegal. Do not do this.] This woman working for the TSA was naturally not amused, and gave me a stare so intense I immediately started to cry and apologise profusely.

The Jehovah's Witnesses apologised for disturbing him, and started to leave.

As soon it started to feel the heat, American announced that it had apologised and would refund the Cantrells.

Even when the press were chasing him around London in the aftermath of Smeargate, McBride claims the depression and sleepless nights didn't begin until the press started calling for Brown to apologise.

During their tomb-smashing period the rebels paused to apologise to Timbuktu's people then started smashing things again.

There was speculation that Blair would apologise for Bloody Sunday 12 years ago but, as William Hague pointed out at the time (see 1.24pm), it would have been odd to apologise at the start of the inquiry.