Example sentences of "sort of [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | ‘ Sort of left you in the air . |
| 4 | But he s seems to be making a claim to be , to sort of promote it within the |
| 5 | He picked up his wallet with his free hand , and sort of tugged me to the door . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Erm they try and erm erm sort of push you out the way and tell you to get lost ! |
| 9 | So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ? |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all . |
| 12 | This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters . |
| 13 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 14 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |