Example sentences of "[noun] sort of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 2 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 3 | ‘ I think Hasan sort of turns into the Twenty-fourth Imam , ’ said Robert . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |
| 6 | It makes everything look sort of fuzzy , and when cars drive past , their lights sort of fill up the street . |
| 7 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 8 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 9 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 10 | Because the oil would attract dust and the d oil dries up and the leaves the dust deposits sort of caked inside the lock , and it will clog it up . |