Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] you 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 2 | I actually said what I meant , used the sort of word you 'd normally only hear from your golfing chums or your rugby pals . |
| 3 | Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar . |
| 4 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 5 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |
| 6 | He did well with the theatre and the media lot because he treated them contemptuously , co-opting Rory Collins as a fellow scourge of sloppy liberals , a man who for all his cash and flash was the real thing , the sort of guy you 'd go into the jungle with , the sort of guy who was his father 's son . |
| 7 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |
| 8 | ‘ Not the sort of chap you 'd want to be captain of a team . ’ |
| 9 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 10 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 11 | Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to go back there on holiday , but it 's not the sort of place you 'd want to visit now , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 14 | That 's just the sort of thing you 'd like ! ’ |
| 15 | I think it 's the sort of thing you 'd make damn sure you know , despite you 're English . |
| 16 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |