Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | Well , I think it 's like everything else , I think that er , with , with Lawrence being off they 're just sort of meeting everything as a crisis and getting , getting |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ Sort of left you in the air . |
| 7 | I sort of regard myself as a sort of a dual nationality now , but that 's one thing I 'll be looking at , er in the next few months hopefully . |
| 8 | But he s seems to be making a claim to be , to sort of promote it within the |
| 9 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You get your lump of metal and you stretch it you sort of pull it through a die , through a tiny hole and you just st stretch it . |
| 12 | He picked up his wallet with his free hand , and sort of tugged me to the door . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Erm they try and erm erm sort of push you out the way and tell you to get lost ! |
| 16 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 17 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 18 | So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ? |
| 19 | Then you could sort of do something with the |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | If she can find the slightest little thing that sort of effects her in an adverse manner |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Because in the past Dave we 've actually tried to tie it in with parent 's evening to sort of use it as a bit of a motivator to jeer the , gee them up before the end |
| 24 | I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all . |
| 25 | these other items were n't in the normal refuse collection and therefore they were going to sort of reduce them from a weekly collection to a |
| 26 | This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters . |
| 27 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 28 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 29 | it 's not worth it because I 'm not gon na sort of get myself into a position where I 'm only likely , where in other words get a job as a bricklayer |
| 30 | erm well I was gon na come down as you know and sort of do something about the loos , but |