Sentence examples for you were sorry from inspiring English sources

You were sorry to see this Scarpia die.

I don't remember the conversation, only that you were sorry for our struggles.

It seemed to mean that no one was ever responsible for anything if only you could tell the truth and most of all if you could say you were sorry.

"If you said you were sorry you were a radical and had seen the errors of your ways, you were let off," Mr. Polonsky said in an interview in 1968.

While my interviewees are invariably fascinating, coherent and precise, I wince at my own stuttered mumblings, e.g. "Well, it's like, er, you know, a bit like what you were – sorry, I was saying a little while back about, um, just that".

When you heard that, you were sorry you hadn't taken a lungful or two — not enough to do you in, but you liked the idea of having to spend some time in an oxygen tent because of a job your stepfather made you do.

You're sorry?

"Oh you're sorry!

He knows you are sorry".

Whaddya mean you're sorry?

Just say you're sorry".