Example sentences of "the sort [prep] [noun sg] you [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 2 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 3 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 4 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
| 5 | This is the sort of stuff you should be asking us ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 6 | Exactly the sort of man you would not suspect . |
| 7 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 8 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 9 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 10 | If you want to fit lots of peripherals to your server then this is the sort of casing you 'll want — it has no less than four free 5.25-inch drive bays plus a pair of 3.5-inch bays . |
| 11 | I actually said what I meant , used the sort of word you 'd normally only hear from your golfing chums or your rugby pals . |
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| 13 | The sort of voice you could just nod off to . |
| 14 | In spite of the worry at the back of her mind , she sat down beside her patient and said gently , ‘ As I sat having my breakfast to the sound of church bells , with the sun coming up behind the hills , I think I felt the sort of affinity you must have with Samana . |
| 15 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 16 | She looked little , and soft , and altogether charming , not at all the sort of person you would n't want to come and stay as Feargal had once intimated . |
| 17 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 18 | The sort of relationship you will be seeking to establish is rather like the one you have with good business colleagues . |
| 19 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
| 20 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 21 | Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar . |
| 22 | He certainly did n't look like the sort of friend you would have , Chris . ’ |
| 23 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 24 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |
| 25 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ amended Constance , who had just voiced this thought , ‘ it 's the sort of place you might find nuns walking , telling their beads and saying their hours and stuff . |
| 26 | It was not the sort of place you would choose to be born in if you had such a choice , but Kylie Ann Minogue was born there anyway . |
| 27 | His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to go back there on holiday , but it 's not the sort of place you 'd want to visit now , ’ he says . |
| 29 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it is n't the sort of place you can just take a look at . ’ |