Example sentences of "[pron] have some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 2 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 3 | See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a |
| 4 | ‘ Have you had some sort of accident with your clothes ? ’ she enquired politely . |
| 5 | Did you have some sort of treatment at home ? |
| 6 | Did you have some sort of recipes ? |
| 7 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 8 | ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence ( the American actress ) , that she was passionately in love with the wife of her American publisher but that it was n't consummated , and that she had some sort of an affair with her French teacher when young . ’ |
| 9 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 10 | Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education . |
| 11 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 12 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 13 | I mean if you had some sort of central area to put things in . |
| 14 | But I warn you , Mr Jacobsen , you may be under the impression that you have some sort of droit de seigneur over make-up artists but , let me assure you , you 're way off the mark . |
| 15 | This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three |
| 16 | These and many hundreds of other questions , views and theories are debated endlessly by us as a group until we reach a view which satisfies us that , at least on the basis of the knowledge and data we have at the moment , we have some sort of cohesiveness . |
| 17 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 18 | We feel we have some sort of responsibility to continue jumping up and down until the situation has improved . |
| 19 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 20 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 21 | ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said . |
| 22 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 23 | If they had some sort of party in there he 's gon na go over the top you know . |
| 24 | The reason , in my opinion , why many artists call pastel application ‘ painting ’ is because they have some sort of complex when comparing their art to that of the oil painter , which is wrong . |
| 25 | The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways . |
| 26 | Every time they 're running short on the story line , they have some sort of competition . |
| 27 | My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education . |
| 28 | Clearly , he has some sort of affinity with the part of King Henry , but it does n't seem an actorly affinity . |
| 29 | By the time a patient comes to consult me ( of any other professional therapist for that matter ) , he is aware that he has some sort of problem in his life and that he wants to get to the bottom of it . |
| 30 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |