Example sentences of "the sort [prep] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Sotheby 's expert they were of different dates … of different styles , by different hands , the sort of set anyone could put together at any time … |
| 2 | This is the sort of trick you 'd expect some tinpot holy man to play , trying to impress the credulously . |
| 3 | Then there came a knock , very light and tentative , the sort of knock one might make accidentally , brushing against the wall . |
| 4 | Johnson referred , characteristically , to ‘ the sort of bounce you would expect from a Scotch egg landing in a bowl of porridge ’ . |
| 5 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 6 | THEY were never really the sort of couple you would put together in a book . |
| 7 | Do you want it to be just a commercial success or do you see it as an opportunity to exhibit large or unusual works , or the sort of work you would like to do more of ? |
| 8 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |