Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] sort of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 2 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 3 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 4 | Oh yeah and I mean that sort of size |
| 5 | I mean that sort of thing does n't help it right . |
| 6 | There is reason , I mean that sort of thing |
| 7 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 8 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 9 | so , do n't worry about bad language , I mean any sort of dialect you know , just forget it 's there |
| 10 | Well I mean any sort of food or anything . |
| 11 | I 've never talked so much in my life and they were interested , they were , I got all sorts of things in , Britannicus and Henry VIII and The Broken Heart and The Winter 's Tale and feminine endings and they did n't stop me , they said go on — oh and Satan 's speech to Eve in the garden — I was in a place of my own — oh glory . " |
| 12 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 13 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 14 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 15 | I found all sorts of reasons for it , like not being there when my father died . |
| 16 | Anyway he 's actually a good friend he knows I say these sort of things about him but erm it 's good ! |
| 17 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 18 | I want some sort of phraseology that as the nights get lighter the mornings get dark |
| 19 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 20 | I learnt all sorts of facts that were entirely new to me . |
| 21 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 22 | ‘ I hope this sort of familiarity is n't going to breed anything . ’ |
| 23 | Erm I do n't know if I told you before , I hated any sort of games . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , I enjoy this sort of thing . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ I know that sort of story ! |
| 27 | I know this sort of stuff is we had similar to when I worked in the shop er , used to , he had three quarters of this , guy come round in a van or whatever , back of a van |
| 28 | I like that sort of thing ! |
| 29 | ‘ I like these sort of mornings , ’ said Vernon . |
| 30 | ‘ John and I like different sorts of holidays , ’ he said . |