Example sentences of "sort [prep] [vb -s] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | She shuts her eyes and sort of lets out a moan like a dog whining or summat . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 5 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects . |
| 6 | It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof . |
| 7 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Maisie , her eyes wide and shining with newly acquired faith , ‘ apparently he hurls thunderbolts around and sort of dries up wells and does tremendous damage to buildings . ’ |
| 9 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 10 | Sort of takes over your imagination . |
| 11 | And then , and then Stitch sort of takes over |
| 12 | My staff were faced with untidy heaps of apparatus apparatus in equipment rooms , and received little or no help from the student representatives So and then it sort of flabbers on a bit saying they 're |
| 13 | Where the road is , you sh- , you should sort of come out like that and the main road sort of goes round like that and you need to sort of go like that . |
| 14 | but you know , but er yeah , you know it sort of goes on does n't it ? |
| 15 | each each year it sort of goes down to half . |
| 16 | Sort of stands up really straight and rigid . |
| 17 | and she always sort of bitches on about everybody . |
| 18 | Everybody that comes into his house , sort of wobbl sort of wobbles out of the door . |
| 19 | So one of the points that sort of comes up is you have n't used the thirty at all have you ? |
| 20 | Inside because your kitchen sort of comes out does n't it ? |
| 21 | So it sort of comes out sort of ringlets |
| 22 | No but when she sort of comes out he says |