Example sentences of "sort of [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha 's father has the same of those Micronesian tortoises , sort of run for ages and ages and in fact he says he 's over two hundred years old . |
| 2 | Erm , what I 'll also do , we 'll only sort of talk for about twenty five minutes , about the essay , and then we 'll look at sh writing short answers er , for the exam , |
| 3 | World Vision hope to provide some sort of schooling for these youngsters . |
| 4 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 5 | What February used to be sort of reckoned for rain did n't it ? |
| 6 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 7 | You just if it 's cold you 'll have to sort of stop for breaks and , so you can get warm wo n't ya ? |
| 8 | But because we , we sort of account for just our territory , it 's core territory , and our territory accounts for forty percent of revenue , there 's an awful lot of accounts registered , so Jenny does n't get any , hardly any time at all to actually go off and , and do any cold calling or anything like that , it 's all B M S. |
| 9 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 10 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 11 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 12 | Without sort of looking for some , for a phrase or whatever , I 'm more or less , I 'm not too bad at erm , well |
| 13 | Because just sort of go for it and it 's all done and then |
| 14 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 15 | You grab your partner by the waist and sort of waddle for a bit , then stamp four times , hard with each foot , on the ground . |
| 16 | On the other , I felt that he had after all taken a sort of liking for me . |
| 17 | They sort of decided for me that it was n't my perfect vocation . |
| 18 | You 're not , you 've not got your councillors coming forward and er you know that , which , which I would like because the , the only way you 'll get your , get anything is by sort of working for it and erm we are very proud you know , I do n't know whether you 've , you must 've seen the book you know erm the , the was brought out the centenary , the eighty-three and er , I mean er , er there 's an awful lot of information there . |
| 19 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 20 | We were sort of waiting for the sunset thing . |
| 21 | Like you know , you 're sort of waiting for it , and then there 's this now would you like , and I thought , I have n't given my answer yet , and then erm , and just leave my name , cos I think |
| 22 | They all sort of mourned for him : to think that he died after a settin' in must have been terrible ! |
| 23 | A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame . |
| 24 | I tell ya , I just , I just had this sort of yearning for chocolate , ooh |
| 25 | Especially if they 've got a logo or something it 's a good way to sort of ask for it . |