Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 2 | I 've actually the last time I got some delivered for me was February so I tend to sort of get something about once a month I think . |
| 3 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 4 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |
| 5 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 6 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 7 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
| 8 | But I I thought I had to sort of do something . |
| 9 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 10 | about analysis or me giving them the dream and I have to sort of like get out for myself what |
| 11 | No I have to sort of . |
| 12 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 13 | I mean you will you will go on merrily your own sweet way and erm I I hope nothing happens to sort of |
| 14 | If anybody comes to say , and you tend to sort of say well what do you really want to talk about , er , and do that . |
| 15 | You tend to sort of I 'd like to book a table for two |
| 16 | You get there and there 's , there 's not that much pressure so you tend to sort of think ah . |
| 17 | Yeah so do you want to sort of make a decision now , or wait till next week or |
| 18 | Well now erm what it says here is that you want to sort of talk about possible options for a year out and then relevance of archaeology to career in surveying or land management . |
| 19 | You want to sort of look at the whole picture together . |
| 20 | It 's very hard work for her er you know she has to sort of get a get all the systems She has to you know it 's it 's very hard work to get the systems going . |
| 21 | You , you kept them and you tried to sort of let people have them who you felt deserved them you know most . |
| 22 | Er , er , are you going to sort of give me a timetable that I can read through to the phone and that it 's not booked up |
| 23 | Kerry would you like to sort of sit over there or something ? |
| 24 | Right , right , would you like to sort of start getting yourselves into the other room . |
| 25 | Right , but one of the things we have to remember is , and I know it 's sort of a sha , but you have the experience of last year and , that has to be shared you know to sort of cut the corners yo you 've got ta pass it back a year or up a year , whichever whatever happens and you 've made a very valid comment there and you need to make note of that that , you know somehow you have to work round Rob to get it |
| 26 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 27 | She 'd ge nothing everything she did she had to sort of beautify it and put some embroidery on it . |
| 28 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 29 | Yeah , but you had to sort of force him to go and take some |
| 30 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |