Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 2 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 3 | I want some sort of phraseology that as the nights get lighter the mornings get dark |
| 4 | yeah get em get em to do some sort of training |
| 5 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a |
| 9 | If you are pregnant and under the age of sixteen , it is compulsory that you receive some sort of education until you reach this age . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you had some sort of accident with your clothes ? ’ she enquired politely . |
| 11 | Under you know some sort of little bit of bullshit if you like saying |
| 12 | if you it depends on what you do I mean if you 're generating quantitative material , you know , if you get some sort of scale ratings of things like sort of estimates of how , how frequently they dream |
| 13 | Erm yeah so I mean that 's generally the way to go so I th I think you know it 's probably worth working away towards a , a more specific set of questions that you might want to ask and , and think of ways of administering them so you get some sort of , you know , numerical information in the end . |
| 14 | They 're calling for you to give some sort of speech . ’ |
| 15 | Did you have some sort of treatment at home ? |
| 16 | Did you have some sort of recipes ? |
| 17 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 18 | Er all of you , all of you prioritising some sort of organisation and planning of revision , so I 've got some ideas that you might want to try on that score so first years , I 'm sure like Clare you must have some work to do . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean if you had some sort of central area to put things in . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You need some sort of connection … ’ |
| 25 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | that you need some sort of anchor points that you think |
| 28 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 29 | Erm , we 've got some publicity material produced , posters we intend doing several displays county hall , headquarters , all police stations will have posters sent out to them , probably libraries will be circulated with them , er it 's a last minute job typical we only just found about it , we do what we can we need some sort of press exercise do n't we you know . |
| 30 | But it does need cleari , unless we get some sort of consensus , and it behove you to say look this is |