Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 9 | I mean if you had some sort of central area to put things in . |
| 10 | 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 ) |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 13 | They reached some sort of conclusion , though . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 16 | ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said . |
| 17 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 18 | If they had some sort of party in there he 's gon na go over the top you know . |
| 19 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 20 | He got some sort of report from intelligence sources in England that Steiner was killed at a place called Meltham House trying to get at Churchill . ’ |
| 21 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 22 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 23 | It was in Burma that he caught some sort of fever and he never got over it ; he came home on leave and never went back . ’ |
| 24 | He achieved some sort of upright position , although his treacherous legs deserted him immediately . |
| 25 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 26 | Well , I had my older brother , , er he won some sort of a scholarship I remember , he became er er part-time attendant at the er part-time attendant at the er university . |
| 27 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 28 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 29 | He had some sort of hang up . |
| 30 | I was surprised by how quickly he agreed to the meeting , as though he had some sort of obligation towards me . |