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Example sentences for "great regret"

  • He asked very politely for my sword, and to my great regret I was compelled to give it him.

  • I see, to my great regret, that you are in poor health and still short of money .

  • With this I had to content myself, to my great regret.

  • This, to my great regret, I was unable to accomplish, and postponed the project to the first opportunity that might present itself.

  • I explained to you a moment ago, for what reason I was, to my great regret, compelled to defer our interview till a more favourable moment, that is all.

  • I am, to my great regret," the monk said with a crafty smile, "compelled to leave you behind.

  • My people caught one of these delicate creatures alive, which, to my great regret, afterwards made its escape.

  • I left Carolside, to my great regret, yesterday.

  • We return to town to-morrow afternoon, to my great regret; and I must, immediately upon our doing so, remove the family to our new abode.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great affliction; great ascetic; great bunch; great changes; great character; great charge; great consternation; great deal; great force; great loss; great lover; great multitude; great name; great pain; great picture; great pomp; great power; great repute; great scholar; great storm; great talents; great thing; greater distance; greater portion; greater speed; potato flour