Example sentences of "sort [prep] thing you [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 2 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 3 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 4 | ‘ It was not the sort of thing you would normally say but you can maybe understand his point of view . |
| 5 | not this sort of thing you would n't as I say |
| 6 | It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’ |
| 7 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose it 's the sort of thing you ought to have an inkling of . |
| 9 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 10 | It 's the sort of thing you might collect from the House of Commons particularly during a er big debate . |
| 11 | The sort of thing you might do was , if you 've got a decision , is you might want to look t at the of that decision , okay ? |
| 12 | you know that 's the sort of thing you might want to read as , as kind of background supplementary material and particularly |
| 13 | It 's the sort of thing you 'll find |
| 14 | do you think that 's the sort of thing you 'll like ? |
| 15 | I ca n't quantify these , I ca n't tell you how many there 'll be , but there will be questions on motivation but before that there 'll be some questions on the basics of of kind of y'know studying , work , psychology , the sort of thing you 'll find in an introductory chapter er not only of the Arnold book but in other books as well . |
| 16 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 17 | Publisher Hugh Murray graphically illustrates the sort of thing you can still expect when you arrive home and take refuge behind the walls . |
| 18 | When journalists resort to this sort of thing you can be sure that the facts are drab in the extreme , and believe me , they do n't come much drabber than our Bargain Weekend Break at the Elan Valley Lodge . |
| 19 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 20 | You know that sort of thing you can |
| 21 | It 's not the sort of thing you can take with you . |
| 22 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 23 | That 's just the sort of thing you 'd like ! ’ |
| 24 | I think it 's the sort of thing you 'd make damn sure you know , despite you 're English . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |
| 27 | That 's the thing , the sort of thing you should keep an eye open , an eye open for . |
| 28 | It 's not the sort of thing you should be doi , well , it could be the sort of thing , but he 's not the right person to do it , is he ? |