Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the conductor actually makes matters worse by indulging in all sorts of slowing up at phrase ends , making the thing into rather an elephantine procession . |
| 2 | They 're just sort of painted on — you know , like black dots . |
| 3 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 4 | it may turn out that it has n't failed miserably but , you know , there may be various ways in which you could improve it which you might , you know , if you 're lucky he might have sort of written on , round the sides and round the edges and erm that 's you know kind of one of the things that you can build on erm you know a lot of |
| 5 | But eh , you 'd have to have it sort of written out and more or less ready I think to go . |
| 6 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 7 | She shuts her eyes and sort of lets out a moan like a dog whining or summat . |
| 8 | Phone call from somebody who wanted to book the hall , erm children 's party , and erm this person kept on saying are you the man that does the , that sort of lets out the hall |
| 9 | I sort of kneel down and give her a touch on the shoulder . |
| 10 | But you do n't want to have people sort of splitting up into groups like you say , sort of standing around which will be a bit embarrassing . |
| 11 | Not really cos it 's a sort of discussion with the whole class so I need the sort of feed back |
| 12 | And our Colin was to be off t' fair , and that , so , me dad sort of went on to our John and pushed our Colin out a little bit . |
| 13 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 14 | I du n no they sort of went back to have a look . |
| 15 | I mean I do it sort of a bit naturally , I mean if you , you know that what , the Delvine Hotel , I mean I sort of went in and I du n no sort of part way in I sort of said can I ask you if , you know , you 've had your other quotes and he sort of said yes we 're gon na sit down tonight and make our minds up |
| 16 | Well sort of went in and said oh , guides with clipboards here ! |
| 17 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 18 | ‘ And he sort of came through and landed in the bath . ’ |
| 19 | That sort of came over quite strongly . |
| 20 | Er they did n't have the er the normal erm antiseptic washes , which sort of came in later on . |
| 21 | Now that one sort of came out quite easily , some of them will come point eight amps , or two point |
| 22 | sort of came off . |
| 23 | Are you on any of these committees that , you know the , the organizing committees erm that are sort of built up to solve problems within the , you know , the various departments , or do you know anyone |
| 24 | sort of built up , her mum and dad come you know ? |
| 25 | I mean they 're not they have n't sort of died out |
| 26 | and he 's just sort of pottering around , wind you know , things winding down , and suddenly the gardener rushes in from the garden , starts trying to kill him , and he shoots , and he |
| 27 | Yeah but you did n't a actually sort of hone in on any particular date . |
| 28 | I used to really go down there and all I did was sort of tick off what the lads had already done . |
| 29 | I had to go and collect grandma you see to take her to the station , and I did n't have an awful lot of time so I just sort of ran round and collected whatever I got . |
| 30 | It is if you if you want to go and see it and get a sort sense of history without a lot of shall we say school school book text type history , but just local history excellent I I I was there well the tour was erm an hour and three quarters and it sort of ran out of light more than ran of talk . |