Example sentences of "[prep] [no cls] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 2 | The the intention of the film is to sort of er create er the the the backdrop to this product . |
| 3 | The thing to do is is to sort of er plot to overthrow parliament or something and see if there 's any reaction ! |
| 4 | That was a sort of temperance league , you know erm where they used to erm er sort of er tell you about all the evils of strong drink . |
| 5 | You may just sort of er form a picture in your mind just sit there and lip read sort of concentrate . |
| 6 | Erm I 'll just sort of er talk briefly about sort of main trends and , and sort of output and orders and so on and then go through in terms of some of the implications that results as regards to employment and domestic crisis . |
| 7 | I thought they would sort of er pass as hedgerowey leaves . |
| 8 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 9 | There is actually one emendation which I put in er just to ex sort of er explicate still further . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean it 's , it 's so clever really is n't it how , how they do sort of er fake furniture like that . |
| 11 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |
| 12 | which you know maybe you , you , you 'd like to erm sort of er see how you related to those sort of people . |
| 13 | And you can still sort of ma make it elevated up this really nice and |
| 14 | Well I mean it 's going to sort of s start shooting up to round about a thousand pound then you 'll have to have a word with Tom . |
| 15 | A pity there , I was gon na sort of le air my knowledge and say a and say look at these olive trees . |
| 16 | it 'll sort of erm light them up it 'll be very |
| 17 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 18 | And you see they say that erm snowdrops really want The best way to sort of erm increase them is just sort of |
| 19 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 20 | Also one would have to work out whether peasants were subsistence minded in that how that once they 'd achieved their subsistence was that all they would want or would they really want to sort of erm work harder and start sharing all their tools and implements in order to gain an even higher productivity . |
| 21 | I often think I wish you know we could capture some of those again I think it would jolly well I , I , I wish government could , could really sort of kn know what it was like . |
| 22 | You would n't think men could die of br die of breast cancer , but they do because men have residual nipples and they do produce small amounts of oestrogen . |
| 23 | A linguistic " continuum " must ex hypothesi reflect a social continuum of speakers who have differential access to the " top " and " bottom " varieties . |
| 24 | Er the point I would like to make if I may is with er regard to the question of a a positive statement er that car dependency should be reduced and er more emphasis given to the availability and use of bus transport erm as well as t er rail transport . |
| 25 | Yes I wanted to erm outline what the you know the purpose of these discussions today er so that we can get to the point where we can get into er get into more detail . |
| 26 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 27 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 28 | That 's why it 'd be so nice to be able to w save the work area so when |
| 29 | Sos there was n't much left of the seven and six to kee feed me and all that . |
| 30 | That will be an exciting thing to wat look forward |