Example sentences of "have [verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 2 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 3 | Cos every country has to make some sort of farming tools , has to make some plates , you know you 've seen photographs and you 've seen pictures , some countries all have some sort of factory . |
| 4 | The man had n't grouted the tiles in properly he 'd used some sort of rough old cement and the water was just going through and staying there ! |
| 5 | ‘ IT WOULD HAVE all been easier , Daddy , ’ said Juliet , ‘ if you 'd had some sort of regular job . |
| 6 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 7 | The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education . |
| 8 | Can you confirm that this is so and whether the accounts would then have to carry some sort of explanatory note to this effect ? |
| 9 | Mr O'Connor added : ‘ All our competitors may have suffered some sort of disability but the standard of competition was phenomenal . ’ |
| 10 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |
| 11 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 12 | He must have had some sort of a flight plan . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't know must have had some sort of virus or something |
| 14 | Stories and legends may have offered some sort of introduction to the more distant past , but it may well be necessary to use one of the school designed local history units as a " bridging " unit to work backwards in time , in a series of leaps , in order to bridge the chasm between history within living memory ( which will have been the natural focus for much work at Key Stage 1 ) and distant periods such as the age of Ancient Egyptians or Romans . |
| 15 | More fundamentally , even if we could invent a new investigative body , it too would have to be trained to produce reliable results , and for it too we would have to invent some sort of internal verification mechanism . |
| 16 | The Woolwich people may have broken these ropes in direct tension by hanging weights on them , having tied some sort of scale pan to one end and the other end to an overhead beam . |
| 17 | Most of our testers considered the driving position and seats close to perfect , but a couple of the taller specimens would have appreciated some sort of steering wheel adjustment to play off comfort against a clear view of the instruments . |
| 18 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 19 | ‘ In the end , you do have to have some sort of juridical power if you are going to keep the institution together . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ A man would have to supply some sort of evidence that he was not a slave to the State , a spy of the KGB . |
| 21 | You 'd have to sign some sort of form . |
| 22 | The stone circles appear to have had some sort of tradition of dancing , perhaps associated with these key times . |
| 23 | He appears to have had some sort of vision or dream , or perhaps both , in the precincts of a pagan temple to the Gallic Apollo , either in the Vosges region or near Autun . |
| 24 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 25 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 26 | Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia . |
| 27 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 28 | In the summer of 1953 he had suffered some sort of breakdown , or nervous crisis , which had been caused ( one view ) or exacerbated ( a more informed view ) by his bizarre relations with the ex-biology teacher at Blesford Ride , the public school where his father , and Stephanie 's father , taught . |
| 29 | I had to presume some sort of sexual relationship between the girl and him — to do otherwise would have been naive ; but for all that there had been something much more daughterly , affectionately protective , than sexual in her glance back at him . |
| 30 | Harvey said , ‘ I 've got some sort of virus . ’ |