Example sentences of "had some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 2 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess . |
| 4 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 5 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 6 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 7 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 8 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
| 10 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 11 | ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said . |
| 12 | He had some sort of hang up . |
| 13 | Between the ages of 65 and 69 , 37 per cent of lone women and 62 per cent of lone men had some sort of occupational pension . |
| 14 | you see , when this thing first happened , er all those old houses , they all had some sort of garden . |
| 15 | All authorities had some sort of proposal on paper by that year , derived in part from the regional advisory reports of earlier years . |
| 16 | Had some sort of job in Sydney , I heard . ’ |
| 17 | I was surprised by how quickly he agreed to the meeting , as though he had some sort of obligation towards me . |
| 18 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 19 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |
| 20 | This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three |
| 21 | Then , quite suddenly , he had some sort of illness , resigned from the Service and went to Thailand for twelve months . |
| 22 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |
| 23 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 24 | She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much . |
| 25 | ‘ He had some sort of breakdown just before he was due to present . |
| 26 | ‘ The wizard said that the little man had some sort of golden disc that told him the time , ’ said the Weasel . |
| 27 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 28 | A survey of adults in two small Ugandan villages found 20% had some sort of disorder , mostly depressive . |
| 29 | I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy . |
| 30 | ‘ I take it Dr Nichols and Dr Grant had some sort of work routine ? ’ |