Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there 's going to be a sort of event at the Rhodes Centre . |
| 2 | Did your Mum do any sort of work at all ? |
| 3 | What can an Alumni offer , beyond what we are trying to deliver , except entry to anyone who has ever done any sort of course at Salford ? |
| 4 | Not that sort of man at all . |
| 5 | And the poser 's dead embarrassed because this other boy knows him and he 's just spotted him trying to get off with a girl in a shop , not his sort of style at all , and he blushes all over , scarlet , even his ears , I noticed the ears . |
| 6 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
| 7 | There was some sort of machine at the other end of the table , covered with little dials and lights . |
| 8 | Most people have absorbed the idea that there is some sort of accountability at the end of life and that they may well need to be preparing to ‘ meet their maker ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ He had to go — there 's some sort of emergency at the Wharf , I think . |
| 10 | Hence the Communication Research Centre , of which I was a sort of caretaker at that time , was conveniently regarded as an embryonic Linguistics Department . |
| 11 | Years later , his sister-in-law Theresa told me that her husband , Henry Ware Eliot , had written to some department of the British government , presumably the Home Office , requesting them to give Eliot some sort of protection at this critical moment . |
| 12 | Eadui Basan , a well-known Canterbury scribe who worked on several surviving de luxe manuscripts , forged S 914 , which purports to be a refoundation of the monastic community by Æthelred , possibly as some sort of safeguard at a time when Cnut was trying to force upon them , in his royal priest Eadsige , a non-monastic archbishop . |
| 13 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 14 | It 's not that sort of hotel at all . |
| 15 | Wiring up the fielder 's l.e.d.s is a bit fiddly because these have to be hard wired and it is necessary to provide some sort of anchorage at each of the indicator positions . |
| 16 | One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead . |
| 17 | Did you have some sort of treatment at home ? |
| 18 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 19 | Ca n't say I agree with all their figures … good as he is I do n't think kelly is worth that sort of money at such an early age … certainly should n't be more than dorigo . |
| 20 | Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled . |
| 21 | That 's cos you had a sort of go at it . |
| 22 | Now listen sorry about that sort of concert at the end . |
| 23 | ‘ Doing that sort of time at 15 months she could turn out to be anything . ’ |
| 24 | On the saucepans there 's a metal rim sort of piece at the end of the handle |
| 25 | Maury 's dream could be a good example of this sort of attempt at comprehension of a series of striking but unconnected images and sensations , a form of the " effort after meaning " that the Cambridge psychologist Sir Frederick Bartlett ascribed to normal waking memory processes in the first half of this century . |
| 26 | There had to be some sort of telepathy at work . |
| 27 | ‘ Believe me , I 'm deeply grateful to be given any sort of study at all , deeply grateful . |
| 28 | I do n't do any sort of job at all , yet when I go on strike , I am still paid my Civil List and the police have to protect me . |
| 29 | Er are you on any sort of medication at all Suzanne ? |
| 30 | Now the company is hoping that iconoclasm is coming back into style — and a certain sort of iconoclasm at that . |