Example sentences of "express regret for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the week leading up to the anniversary pro-US legislators made plans to pass a Diet resolution expressing regret for the action . |
| 2 | It expressed regret for the violence , presumably approved by the leadership of Mr Milos Jakes , with which riot police suppressed the student demonstrations on November 17 . |
| 3 | After suffering strokes in 1983 and 1986 , Abernathy caused controversy in 1989 when he published his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , in which he expressed regret for having been seen as " no more than an appendage to Martin " . |
| 4 | The army C.-in-C. , Gen. Try Sutrisno , expressed regret for the killings , but said that the troops had had " no choice " but to fire . |
| 5 | The text of the letter , which was released in full , expressed regret for misleading the officer by failing to disclose the depth of his opposition to the war , and also thanked him for " saving me from the draft " . |