Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 2 | He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — " |
| 3 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 4 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 5 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 6 | Erm and basically er the , the reason for doing it that way is that erm , I do n't want to set up a situation where erm I 'm some sort of expert and I er this is not a matching process , okay ? |
| 7 | ‘ You think I 'm some sort of kosher goody-goody , do n't you , dybbuk ? ’ she says into her fist . |
| 8 | I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’ |
| 9 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 10 | It is a thing that is only important if you are some sort of lonely fan who loves The Wedding Present and thinks that David is a lovely , sincere person . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 12 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 13 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 14 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 15 | Franca , wondering who she was , had decided that she was some sort of secretary or servant of Marcus , like the conjuror 's assistant . |
| 16 | She spoke a lot , and they turned and congratulated each other on her French , as though she was some sort of barrel-organ she thought , being not only sex-starved but starved also of admiration . |
| 17 | She was some sort of idealist . ’ |
| 18 | Even Nelson 's invitation was being misconstrued as more evidence that she was some sort of siren who enjoyed luring men with her seductive powers . |
| 19 | We were some sort of kin . |
| 20 | Well I assume they 're some sort of |
| 21 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 22 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 23 | Could it be some sort of retribution for sending a 440k gif file last week ? |
| 24 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 25 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 26 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ There 'll be an outcry , bring up a human baby as though he were some sort of experimental animal ! |
| 28 | It is important not to interpret the phrase that Jesus had felt some power go out of him as though he were some sort of ‘ divine energy source ’ of healing . |
| 29 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 30 | Or if it 's not being entertaining , coming away absolutely hating or loving it — as long as it 's some sort of reaction . |