Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean whereas if I sort of came from a middle class background I think people would have thought differently of me . |
| 2 | I ai n't seen this series I just sort of remember from the last series . |
| 3 | Point four the sums included with the paying increase , the one point five and negotiated seven staff and er on that or are we sort of governed by the financial cr criteria government and also are there other departments or staff within the Town Hall will receive a higher increase . |
| 4 | Are you still sort of staying at the same or |
| 5 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 6 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 7 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 8 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 9 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 10 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 11 | ‘ I think Hasan sort of turns into the Twenty-fourth Imam , ’ said Robert . |
| 12 | sort of ended in a little |
| 13 | But it does please me that we fight back , I like that , but it displeases me the way we sort of go under a little bit . |
| 14 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 15 | you know it does n't they they do n't erm sort of exist in the social security system like the rest of us do , |
| 16 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 17 | You usually look at that person , and when you coming to the end of your your your speel , you sort of look at the one person . |
| 18 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 19 | It 's interesting though that that you talked about that sort of identifying with the old companies , even in the nationalization days . |
| 20 | So we need people with different personalities and different types to be within that within any group for a group to be very successful you need some sort of share of the different types of group if you had a predominance of shapers you 'd get nowhere . |
| 21 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 22 | You want to sort of look at the whole picture together . |
| 23 | looks after , I , I 'm not sure exactly what he does , but he does sort of look after the Welsh Office 's own traffic counting programme . |
| 24 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 25 | Oh they had it well would just be anything it was just a long roll th great big roll , just like It just sort of wrapped in a grey eh a big waterproof kind of co covering , and he would have er shirts and and er things like that for men to buy , or er and sometimes er overall or a pinny , as we said , for mother and the like of that . |
| 26 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |