Example sentences of "could [adv] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 2 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 3 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 4 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 5 | I often think I wish you know we could capture some of those again I think it would jolly well I , I , I wish government could , could really sort of kn know what it was like . |
| 6 | There was four routes there now and we had as many as ten buses operating those four , so it meant they were left , you could n't sort of segregate them . |
| 7 | So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know . |
| 8 | you know was that they 'd got results which they could n't sort of like apply |
| 9 | books , and you could n't sort of swop the |
| 10 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 11 | Yeah you could n't sort of get at any where near him to start with . |
| 12 | and she er she could n't sort of feel guilty about it |
| 13 | The thing is , you ca n't really , you could n't sort of see this jagged mess . |
| 14 | and I felt quite happy especially with a bow tie on , you know , it had been , it had gone you know and in a way we sort of could almost sort of |
| 15 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |
| 16 | you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions |