Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked at your planet Uulaa , and I know what sorts of fun you would seek there . |
| 2 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 6 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 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 | IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS OR IDEAS ON THE SORT OF ORGANISATION YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN WRITE TO US NOW , AND GET A FREE COPY OF THE NEW DRAFT CONSTITUTION TO BE ISSUED IN MARCH |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Maybe British Rail should start to reserve seats according to what sort of conversation you would like to have . |
| 14 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 15 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 16 | He certainly did n't look like the sort of friend you would have , Chris . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you do not feel you are a thrusting , dynamic sort of person you may possess different but equally desirable qualities which employers will want . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When you know what the job is and what sort of person you would like to employ your next step is to look in the ideal place for applicants of the right calibre . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |
| 24 | He did well with the theatre and the media lot because he treated them contemptuously , co-opting Rory Collins as a fellow scourge of sloppy liberals , a man who for all his cash and flash was the real thing , the sort of guy you 'd go into the jungle with , the sort of guy who was his father 's son . |
| 25 | Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture . |
| 26 | If you 've got no choice but to get out and walk then you are gon na have to do that , and that 's all very well being a day like today , where it 's not pouring down with rain er , you 're not walking in a pitch black area , but if you do suddenly change that and you put it into those sort of , well that sort of scenario you 'll find it 's very , very , frightening . |
| 27 | And so it would be most interesting to see what sort of patent you can come up with for policy , and and and and and and we 'll see just just how you 'll meet that . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If you have a set amount to spend and a glance through the adverts shows that the sort of horse you would like carries a rather bigger asking price , you 'll be wasting your and someone else 's time by going to look . |
| 30 | IT 'S NOT THE SORT OF JOB YOU CAN SWITCH OFF FROM |