Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the groups in the survey had a fixed idea about the sort of worker they would meet at the CAB : female , over 50 , middle or upper class and authoritarian . |
| 2 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 3 | He was the sort of man nobody would look at twice . |
| 4 | I thought you might have become the sort of man who would do something like that . ’ |
| 5 | Most of all , Mahoney did n't look like the sort of man who would work in an art gallery . |
| 6 | He was the sort of man who would come to the worst possible conclusion . |
| 7 | You know , there 's a certain sort of man who would come to a joint like this in order to fuck the women in it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
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| 11 | ‘ It 's the sort of performance we would expect from an understudy , ’ was one review I had . |
| 12 | This is precisely the sort of position one would expect given the combination of their respectable backgrounds , in almost all cases their membership of the Free Presbyterian Church , and their belief that the appeasement policies of the government and the Chief Constable have to be opposed publicly . |
| 13 | Alan was the sort of driver who would have gone out on an ice-skating rink . |
| 14 | Maybe British Rail should start to reserve seats according to what sort of conversation you would like to have . |
| 15 | She missed her friends but she did n't envy them — though she thought Albert Sandwich probably did : he was the sort of boy who would prefer to be taught in a proper school . |
| 16 | He certainly did n't look like the sort of friend you would have , Chris . ’ |
| 17 | Cos this is the album of music the sort of music I would wan na listen to and I like s performing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Interesting that he had married precisely the sort of girl he would have married had he stayed at home . |
| 20 | It was not the sort of gag one would have expected from Lord King , and it set a certain tone … |
| 21 | Will the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House more clearly what sort of involvement he would expect from the DTI ? |
| 22 | They had agreed it was best to put the coins on the market one by one ; a flood of rare coins , some without provenance and others with the sort of provenance which would interest the police , would be bound to arouse suspicion . |
| 23 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 24 | Alfred Watkins was hardly the sort of person one would expect to start a movement which would radically affect the way in which we experience the landscape . |
| 25 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 26 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 27 | Bleakly she wondered what sort of person she would have become by the time that happened . |
| 28 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 29 | ‘ Zoser does n't strike me as the sort of person who would have contacts . ’ |
| 30 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |