Example sentences of "and [adv] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm and somewhere sort of reasonable . |
| 2 | It rusts so quickly and so sort of firmly it forms a very thin film of aluminium oxide on the surface . |
| 3 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 4 | But when I learned to play guitar I just got a book of chords and learned them and just sort of thrashed around . |
| 5 | And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up . |
| 6 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 7 | And just sort of write down a few expression and then think ah that 's not right or yes that 's |
| 8 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 9 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 10 | And just sort of carpet the two top areas , two raised areas , and have the other , the rest of it as a sort of lino floor . |
| 11 | And just sort of like did , just called people |
| 12 | But I mean my cleaner used to come in and just sort of like clean around me and chat a bit . |
| 13 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |
| 14 | Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture . |
| 15 | And just sort of like that . |
| 16 | you see the coach come to a standstill and then all the people screaming and trying to get out so I pulled over and just sort of done my best to get 'em out . |
| 17 | So it can only be human failure I E that she was driving and just sort of lost her concentration for a few seconds and that was fatal |
| 18 | So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ? |
| 19 | I 'd say sod the crystal and just sort of take him out . |
| 20 | He thinks the same as you , it should be banned and strictly sort of I do n't . |
| 21 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 22 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 23 | Before you really get down to doing anything , you 've got to look at the problem , and , and really sort of try and analyse what is going on , and what bit of the problem are you going to work on . |
| 24 | Yeah but they 're like four interviews on a sheet and really sort of |
| 25 | Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million . |
| 26 | I saw him move the mat so it should be on a slippery bit and then sort of pretend to slip on it , and then start to shout . ’ |
| 27 | So concentrate and then sort of pull back a bit from it and check the main bits and a good way is going through the sounds of each syllable . |
| 28 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 29 | and then sort of come up |
| 30 | to get the cement job and then sort of say to the |