Example sentences of "sort of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Chairman erm I 'd start erm by for the Labour Group motion committee like people also who erm have actually sort of written to us letters repeat what they said but the vast vast majority that erm have expressed the genuine concerns of the people who have left work . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |
| 6 | I had always been sort of fascinated with pictures : I was more of a visual person than a word person . ’ |
| 7 | Painted for a bust to be made , so that 's why we have the three views , but I think it 's very lucky , it means we can sort of walk round Charles , and get our own view of him . |
| 8 | but I only went round Dor Dorman Longs because the man who 's in charge of the labourers who moved all the machinery about er I sort of went with him see I did n't |
| 9 | er and I sort of , I thought well you know , I mean , I sort of went of that erm and I , I showed him a window , showed him a corner section erm , I did n't ask , I said I ca n't remember if your wife sort of erm , if your sister said it was the gold or the white handles |
| 10 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 11 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 12 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 13 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 14 | Erm I mean he it sort of went through our staff inspector wise and er Paul was sort of chatting , and he was n't being unkind he said yes , they 'll be dinosaurs because it 's a long time since you 've had er any training like that . |
| 15 | I thought there was a , there was a full chapter on how the cadres and the Party members sort of went beyond their allowed position and took |
| 16 | Apparently erm , they often do this and of course , they sort of went into their home and got this girl with her friend and they sort of put the pegs on their noses and have these sort of rubber hats with those |
| 17 | reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really |
| 18 | So if we sort of went like that |
| 19 | Everybody everybody happy well I you just sort of went like that and I was n't quite sure whether you was sort |
| 20 | Then he sort of went like this , pulled out a big gun , pointed it at us says , Give us the keys , again . |
| 21 | and sort of went like this and landed on it and went bang down . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh yes when I went to Stronsay Academy first we were very much kids for the country being all this country ones and often we 'd sometimes be and said some terribly wild and woolly awfully countrified phrase you know until pride sort of came to our rescue when we we got out of it as much as ever we could . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And I mean whereas if I sort of came from a middle class background I think people would have thought differently of me . |
| 26 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 27 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 28 | But it it 's sort of built into the ground apparently so that it 'd be pretty low down . |
| 29 | Right , the control panel erm sort of built in |
| 30 | how did they sort of cope with their relationships or anything like that ? |