Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of day everyone should have their wedding on . |
| 2 | Francis : the judge considered why Findlay had signed the interview notes and concluded that the toothache was exaggerated and that though tired he was not the sort of man who would have signed incriminating notes out of consideration for his solicitor . |
| 3 | The sort of man who could have his pick of women , so why had n't he picked any ? |
| 4 | Looking down into his eyes , Harry Pascoe knew instinctively that there was in Tristram the makings of the sort of man he would have liked to have been himself : a man of honour , a man untroubled by jealousy or a guilty conscience . |
| 5 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
| 6 | Alan was the sort of driver who would have gone out on an ice-skating rink . |
| 7 | ‘ And in that sort of story it 'd have to be their own fault . ’ |
| 8 | He certainly did n't look like the sort of friend you would have , Chris . ’ |
| 9 | Obviously that 's not the sort of love I would have got from Keith or whoever , it 's not secure like there 's someone looking after me . |
| 10 | Interesting that he had married precisely the sort of girl he would have married had he stayed at home . |
| 11 | It was not the sort of gag one would have expected from Lord King , and it set a certain tone … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That 's a normal sort of price I 'd have said |
| 14 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 15 | Bleakly she wondered what sort of person she would have become by the time that happened . |
| 16 | ‘ Zoser does n't strike me as the sort of person who would have contacts . ’ |
| 17 | The presence in such deserts as the Sahara of vast lakes such as mega-Chad which overflowed into the Bodele depression south of the Tibesti seems more the sort of feature which would have resulted from increased Pleistocene rainfall . |
| 18 | He was not the sort of evangelist who would have been content with a mere shallow ‘ decision for Christ ’ . |
| 19 | Colin Beveridge , the fanzine 's assistant editor and chief vendor , was doing the sort of trade he might have expected by selling the Rock of Ages song sheet . |
| 20 | It was exactly the sort of letter she would have written if they 'd had two hundred thousand in the bank instead of less than nothing . |
| 21 | If you — the audience — came round to my place , this is the sort of evening we 'd have . ’ |
| 22 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 23 | any , any other sort of mouse I could have brought me mouse with me and we could have run it off the serial port erm it 's a pain that Amstrad mouse . |
| 24 | He 's the sort of grandfather I would have liked to have , ’ Paige said shortly , then softened her tone as she thought of the kindly gentleman who had taken her under his wing . |
| 25 | The ministry , he said , was arguing over how many carers Mr Robinson required , the sort of car he should have and the extent of his potential loss of earnings . |
| 26 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 27 | Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy . |
| 28 | WHEN Marie Haworth 's husband was dying of cancer , the couple discussed what sort of funeral he should have . |
| 29 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 30 | That 's the sort of thing we should have is n't it . |