Example sentences of "sort of [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 2 | And perhaps Van Dyck does n't flatter him in quite the way , flatter 's the wrong word , sort of transmutes him in the way that he often does in his very elegant and sophisticated portraits . |
| 3 | But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up . |
| 4 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 5 | ‘ Sort of left you in the air . |
| 6 | But he s seems to be making a claim to be , to sort of promote it within the |
| 7 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 8 | He picked up his wallet with his free hand , and sort of tugged me to the door . |
| 9 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 10 | I suppose the trouble is yeah if you do push , if you do go for that the other side cos you just sort of push them into the |
| 11 | Erm they try and erm erm sort of push you out the way and tell you to get lost ! |
| 12 | So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ? |
| 13 | Then you could sort of do something with the |
| 14 | just got ta put something in that in the coursework and the exams that sort of gets you over the forty percent barrier and in psychology it 's not that difficult to sort of waffle your way up to forty percent erm without wishing ma to make it sound too easy erm |
| 15 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 16 | I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all . |
| 17 | This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters . |
| 18 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 19 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 20 | erm well I was gon na come down as you know and sort of do something about the loos , but |
| 21 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |