Example sentences of "[v-ing] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said they were unhappy in their placement , had been in care for too long , nothing appeared to begetting sorted out , they were being bullied , they wanted more independence , problems with foster or adoptive families , feeling stigmatized in care , feeling unable to cope with independent or semi-independent living ( De'Ath and Newman , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | Chris will state the legal position , helping to sort out individual problems and informing readers of their rights before they get into that sticky , embarrassing , sometimes costly and almost always avoidable involvement with solicitors and the courts . |
| 3 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 4 | He 'll love helping to sort the washing , too , running off with his own jumper and refusing to let go . |
| 5 | A BRIEF word for this welcome reissue of a 1955 Ingmar Bergman classic which stars Ulla Jacobsson , Eva Dahl-Beck , Harriet Anderson , Margit Carlquist and Jarl Kulle as a series of mismatched couples struggling to sort out their troubles . |
| 6 | Maxted looked up from a pile of papers he was struggling to sort out . |
| 7 | ‘ Those services which normally refer clients to us are not doing so because the local authority concerned does not have a contract with Roma or are struggling to sort out their assessment procedures , ’ he said . |
| 8 | There 's a bloody riot going on , the town is crammed with nigs , er blacks , and they are looking to sort out the Young Conservatives . |
| 9 | Behind the tarpaulin there were tables and chairs for the RCM workers , mostly , as an American journalist noticed , elegantly turned-out young ladies who looked ‘ a good deal more like a junior league committee getting together to discuss a costume ball than officials waiting to sort out a trainload of Jewish refugee children ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're going to sort it out ourselves ? ’ |
| 11 | I imagined God saying something like this : ‘ So you are going to sort him out , are you ? |
| 12 | Mother Francis was going to sort it out . |
| 13 | They had a report that Gilbey hurried off to the Lotus HQ , laughing as Styczynski shouted : ‘ Are you going to sort out this mess , mate ? ’ |
| 14 | How are you going to sort that out ? |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ said O'Rourke , ‘ he was going to sort it all out properly when he got back to England . |
| 16 | So we that 's going to sort that problem , co s we can |
| 17 | Well it 's they 're going to sort it out . |
| 18 | Do n't know I 'm just going to sort them out when I get this card This is lovely board this one is . |
| 19 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 20 | Here Auntie paused , again attempting to sort out some ideas . |
| 21 | He was laboriously attempting to sort out the financial details of the scheme he had put to Christian . |
| 22 | ‘ Off the field , though , I went through all the youthful , Jack the Lad nonsense that comes before getting sorted out . |
| 23 | But they are beginning to sort it up . |
| 24 | Having sorted out his ideal home , Loyd picked some other favourites from the show . |
| 25 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 26 | He was credited with having sorted out and rationalized the administration of North Borneo , a country as large as Ireland . |
| 27 | Having sorted out his long game he just needs to acquire more consistency around the green . |
| 28 | In parallel the three Managing Directors are starting to sort out the detailed issues connected with the new structure . |
| 29 | To save having to sort them later . |
| 30 | I am interested to see that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) would not balk at the prospect of having to sort out those knotty problems . |