Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 3 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 4 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 5 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 6 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe one day , if things keep going well for me , I might make that sort of money . |
| 8 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think we should make that sort of speculation without any evidence , ’ she snapped . |
| 10 | Harris peremptorily summoned him to the committee-room after this latter incident and told him : ‘ We do not want that sort of thing at Lord 's , Fender . ’ |
| 11 | But I do n't want that sort of marriage — no disrespect to your Sol , sister dear ! |
| 12 | And you would n't want that sort of thing to happen in future ? |
| 13 | And I was just thinking then that er Frank Clarke will want will want that sort of speed across the across the ground from Cooper , it 's perhaps something they 've lack in recent games stability at the heart of their defence of Notts Forest . |
| 14 | But if he 's there give it to him an , an an , an , tell him , you do n't want that sort of thing ! |
| 15 | It is a nonsense to inhibit that sort of synergy on the basis that together the merged units have a logically dominant position in the relatively small British market . |
| 16 | You 've got ta keep using that sort of imagination to actually keep seizing people 's imagination . |
| 17 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 18 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 19 | I mean that sort of thing does n't help it right . |
| 20 | There is reason , I mean that sort of thing |
| 21 | Oh yeah and I mean that sort of size |
| 22 | I mean that sort of yo er yo er , although , really you want them to see that cos they know what it 's about then , then they 'll read that , but , it would have been nice if that had of been darker |
| 23 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 24 | She probably lived that sort of life herself , Stephen thought . |
| 25 | It 's a good job I do n't eat that sort of thing any more . |
| 26 | How would she explain that sort of behaviour to Colm ? |
| 27 | Now usually we would explain that sort of things in terms of improved sanitation , improvements in the standard of living and so on , but that 's not really happening , there 's no evidence for that in the Chinese countryside in this period . |
| 28 | You ca n't explain that sort of thing to people , though . |
| 29 | ‘ I really do n't like them eating that sort of disgusting junk food , ’ Laura protested . |
| 30 | But to be honest I should n't be eating that sort of thing anyway , so |