Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 2 | Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I felt sorry for the others , so I confessed . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I felt sorry for the people in the awful rain . |
| 5 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 6 | He stuck hi and he get that wound up towards the end I felt sorry for the poor little soul ! |
| 7 | I felt sorry for the gypsies you know in Cross Street |
| 8 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 9 | With the exhibition of Johannes Heisig , Tammen & Busch present a prominent young representative of the Leipzig School of painters , which became famous for the dissolution of figuration into shimmering points of colour . |
| 10 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 11 | These he assembled in his Chelsea Knackatory in 1695 , an establishment which proved popular for the next hundred years . |
| 12 | She noticed the girl 's apparent excitement , her shining eyes and lightness of step as she made ready for the adventure ; and again she wondered , surprised that her charge should give the appearance of a damsel in love , one shortly to be reunited with her bridegroom . |
| 13 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 14 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 15 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 16 | No matter that she had no idea of the story behind the dance , she watched entranced for the half-hour as the orchestra played , fauns cavorted , lovers kissed and villains fought . |
| 17 | In each case you you did it this is what I like you went straight for it you went straight for the salt on the most difficult one the carbonate . |
| 18 | There were many people in Greece who felt grateful for the repression of even minor social disturbances , such as that of Dyme in Achaia about 116 B.C. , so typically described in the letter by the Roman proconsul Quintus Fabius Maximus to the magistrates of the city : abolition of debts and contracts ( SIG 684 ) . |
| 19 | References to the senior members from whom we learned were many and it is interesting that several who felt grateful for the quality of the intellectual challenge offered also , in retrospect , appreciated the problems of College and University in maintaining this when so many dons , male and female , had gone . |
| 20 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 21 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 22 | It looks like Labour and the Liberal Democrats are set to join forces , adding to the agony for Alan Winmill , who left Labour for the Tories last year . |
| 23 | Lorraine stayed in New Jersey and married a local boy , George Smith , to whom she remained devoted for the rest of his life , until he died in 1986 . |
| 24 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 25 | We felt sorry for the people who lived in towns . |
| 26 | ‘ Still the guns churned this treacherous slime , the surplus water poured into the trenches as its natural outlet , and they became impossible for the troops … men staggered warily over duckboards . |
| 27 | They felt sorry for the poor criminal … |
| 28 | She could almost feel sorry for him , the way that everybody felt sorry for the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons ; so singleminded , and with a lack of perspective that was spectacular . |
| 29 | Emmanuel Mounier and the young collaborationist intellectuals of Jeune France were the first to propose the idea of a State culture to counter the empty capitalist hedonism , which they held responsible for the moral catastrophe of 1940 . |
| 30 | Government troops killed over 40 Tamils whom they held responsible for the Aug. 6 incidents , after Wijeratne had declared that " we will show no mercy to these Tamil terrorists , criminals who do not deserve to live " . |