Example sentences of "sort of [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 !
3 Sort of left you in the air .
4 But he s seems to be making a claim to be , to sort of promote it within the
5 ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do .
6 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 .
7 He picked up his wallet with his free hand , and sort of tugged me to the door .
8 ‘ 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 … ’
9 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
10 Erm they try and erm erm sort of push you out the way and tell you to get lost !
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ?
14 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
15 If she can find the slightest little thing that sort of effects her in an adverse manner
16 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
17 I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all .
18 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
19 This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters .
20 She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there .
21 No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph .
22 No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that
23 well , not to come in the next , but rather to you know , sort of leave it to a higher justice if you like .
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