Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are instruments of a sort for upholding blue rights : working groups look into ‘ disappearances ’ , rapporteurs are attached to particularly sinful countries . |
| 2 | Well I do n't think they come true really it just sort of feels real . |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah , so you know we need to sort of pull that together |
| 4 | That may have , I suppose , erm , sort of led some people to believe that we do n't have a choice , but technically we do . |
| 5 | Now the ex the analogy which is used , to , to sort of explain this a bit further , is , is with handedness . |
| 6 | So in order to sort of effect effective change , you really need to do it very slowly and incrementally . |
| 7 | it 's sort of does that |
| 8 | Well they 've only got one , one girl who sort of does clerical and stuff and reception , they have n't got a anybody who knows how to . |
| 9 | Oh I do n't know he under , when you that told he understood it a lot more than when she said it and she sort of went all |
| 10 | ‘ After all the Loot misery , ’ Codron told me , ‘ we sort of went quiet on each other . ’ |
| 11 | They always sort of came first , they were the sort of centre of the family and everything rotated round them . |
| 12 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 13 | Erm being that I , one of the bits which I think catches your eye is this little house here , although there 's lots of them about , because this one tends to be in a slightly darker area , and for some reason that , the light on there is sort of picking that one out rather more than all the others , and I think that 's quite a nice little feature . |
| 14 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 15 | sort of try two or three styles then sort of how well you got ta think about your headdress and that first , have n't you ? |
| 16 | Can we you , you 've said some quite important things i in this , can we just sort of clarify this before going on . |
| 17 | you just feel , I think when you 've sort of lost much weight |
| 18 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |
| 19 | I suppose you could say we sort of adopted each other , as neither of us had any real brothers and sisters . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt a bit lost in the world and had no brothers or sisters , ’ he recalled , ‘ so my gran and I sort of adopted each other . |
| 21 | so people were constantly sort of shoving this aside and walking through . |
| 22 | We might pay some of the mortgage off and er er , if there 's any you know , we sort of keep some in there . |
| 23 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 24 | Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ? |
| 25 | This neo-Freudian theory has been articulated by Berger and others , and represents the sort of thinking underlying Dement 's original hypothesis , that the prevention of dreaming should cause emotional difficulties . |
| 26 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 27 | You know , sort of match That 's French polished . |
| 28 | So erm , she presumably being used to sort of accepting these er , crises and behaviour |
| 29 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 30 | I was out with erm an nephew la last night and I mean it was n't icy but it was sort of getting late and it was cold . |