Example sentences of "this [was/were] a sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 2 | Tetsu tried to explain that this was a sort of tingling in the legs . |
| 3 | This was a sort of a battle , can you see ? , a battledress jacket . |
| 4 | This was a sort of pilgrimage , as his father , a former Norwich City footballer , had recently died . |
| 5 | This was a sort of a suggestion of the of the layout |
| 6 | This was a sort of passage , short , lined with cupboards . |
| 7 | This was a sort of Blue Peter for the gastronomically challenged for the clumsy truth is , of course , that either Mr Mayle or the adaptor of his book feared that WE would n't recognise a truffle if it crawled up our trouser leg . |
| 8 | Similar to the Roly-Polies but this was a sort of erm an amateur group . |