Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks like the sort of slave sold for a knock-down price ; skinny and stooped , wearing nylon trousers , damp plimsolls , and cringing in his thin anorak against the wind . |
| 2 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 3 | I recognised the danger sign … a sort of snarl camouflaged as a smile . |
| 4 | Sir John , I will need some sort of box to serve as a coffin for poor Cosmas . |
| 5 | Some handwriting may be difficult to read due to a lack of visual clarity , but most readers can perform some sort of recognition resulting in a meaningful interpretation . |
| 6 | Direct evidence of a rather different sort of learning comes from a study of great reed warblers and cuckoos , also in Central Japan , undertaken by Arnon Lotem and Amotz Zahavi of Tel-Aviv University , in collaboration with Dr Nakamura . |
| 7 | This may be because its members had , or could soon sink roots into , some sort of community belonging to a structured society . |
| 8 | ‘ Because if you did , you 'd know as well as I that any youngsters growing up in that sort of background learn from a relatively early age all the joys of hotel life — like being called upon to wash sinkloads of dishes when the dishwasher packs up — or to change dozens of beds when the chambermaid calls in sick . |
| 9 | No one yet knows if this sort of thing happens in a dying brain , but if it does , it might actually explain how many angels can dance on the head of a pin . |
| 10 | He was beginning to realize he did n't have popular appeal , so he thought he would try to mould his work into the sort of thing bought by a small book-buying elite . |