Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's a bit of a nonsense to say that pigeons perch in trees you may see an odd pigeon sort of settle in a tree but not for long . |
| 2 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 3 | And then I came , I thought oh I ca n't find actually , there 's some here right , and she were n't gon na give them to me and I sort of went in there and got them myself . |
| 4 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 5 | Right , the control panel erm sort of built in |
| 6 | Yeah , no no no you go off Deptford High Street it 's got this big sign says do not enter flashing lights you go down this alleyway and there 's this like tramp just sort of spit in your face going urgh off with you you laddie , right ? |
| 7 | Fifty pounds plus VAT plus travelling and then you sort of tick in er various boxes if you 're a vegan or er |
| 8 | I used to think dreams , you sort of stored in your mind , you know , cos as a lad I did er sle once or twice sleep walk and er at lunchtimes they used to delegate er when you was on your last half year they used to delegate one every day to pick |
| 9 | Erm but , he 's a bit sort of lost in it , he 's , he does n't have any dominance really . |
| 10 | sort of keep in touch . |
| 11 | and it 's sort of gone in five minutes . |
| 12 | I think what really happened then [ the third time ] there was a sort of crackling in the noises as if someone was falling down . |
| 13 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 14 | I 've had odd holidays with friends and my parents but this is the first time I 've actually sort of lived in the country . |
| 15 | Groups have been sort of defined in different types of groups . |
| 16 | There was a strange sort of hissing in the bracken to the west which I could n't put a name to . |
| 17 | So we need to re-draft it we it needs to be sort of re-drafted in in a format |
| 18 | Yellow-like in colour it sort of floated in the air . |
| 19 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 20 | Get rid of all that and you have got more table area because i they can sort of sit in th in the , the |
| 21 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 22 | Sort of cut in half . |
| 23 | Well sort of looking in that , that s er on the Tyne . |
| 24 | And er this particular minister was all everyone was sort of looking in his direction and pointing . |
| 25 | So if we sort of put in here one one third what does it mean ? |
| 26 | Yes , so I wondered whether if , I think we should take that up er , it does seem extraordinary that a big thing like that is , is sort of put in the odds and ends column . |
| 27 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 28 | Now that might stand oh you say , blurgh , y'know , rubbish you you just sort of depend in this particular way , it 's not . |
| 29 | Er you see you sort of lived in one li small environment where , er with us it was er a certain room . |
| 30 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |