Example sentences of "[pers pn] had 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 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 .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’
7 I mean if you had some sort of central area to put things in .
8 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
9 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 ’ .
10 Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber
11 ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said .
12 It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search .
13 If they had some sort of party in there he 's gon na go over the top you know .
14 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 .
15 He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact .
16 He had some sort of hang up .
17 I was surprised by how quickly he agreed to the meeting , as though he had some sort of obligation towards me .
18 You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years .
19 Then , quite suddenly , he had some sort of illness , resigned from the Service and went to Thailand for twelve months .
20 She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much .
21 He had some sort of breakdown just before he was due to present .
22 Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir .
23 I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy .
24 He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone
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