Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 2 | I only just caught the train , and when , a quarter of an hour later , we pulled in to Lochgair , and I should have got my bag and quit the Sprinter and walked to the house and finally have talked — sober , and not in the context of a game of Alternative Charades — to my father , and apologised , and spent the three hours until the next Glasgow train with my mother and father in some longed-for spirit of reconciliation , I did nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal . |
| 4 | ‘ Do I strike you as the sort of man who 's attracted to Amazons ? ’ he asked , his grey eyes flicking curiously on her face , waiting to hear what she would say , but , she felt , not terribly concerned whether she replied or not . |
| 5 | ‘ You mentioned something of the sort when you first came in . |
| 6 | You put them in the sort of the corner , Mr 's got one , you extend your telly . |
| 7 | ‘ Did his general condition lead you to expect something of the sort ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You know nothing of the sort . |
| 9 | ‘ Now you know nothing of the sort . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But I do deny it and you know nothing of the sort ! ’ |
| 11 | Good locks are n't cheap … unless you compare them with the sort of loss and distress even a minor burglary can cause . |
| 12 | ‘ In fact you strike me as the sort of poisonous little pockmark that will always be wrong ! |
| 13 | In a remarkable public statement , Anne insisted she said nothing of the sort . |
| 14 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |
| 15 | They know nothing of the sort . |
| 16 | They took her to the sort of restaurants she could mention without shame next day when her colleagues at work asked ‘ Where did he take you ? ’ |
| 17 | It was possible they thought nothing of the sort , but she still felt she had to do something to show she was not entirely alone and friendless . |
| 18 | I smiled a smile that was meant to signify interest in this excursion , but Carla was far too intelligent to believe it showed anything of the sort . |
| 19 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 20 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 21 | He would not begin to guess just how much she loved and wanted him , because he felt nothing of the sort for her . |
| 22 | He did nothing of the sort . |
| 23 | Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort . |
| 24 | Secondly , we are told that David I gave the town the muir in 1128 , whereas to the best of our knowledge he did nothing of the sort . |
| 25 | ‘ It did nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | It proves nothing of the sort , " thought the Magistrate , stroking his cinnamon whiskers with excitement that bordered on ecstasy . |
| 27 | In practice , of course , he does nothing of the sort . |
| 28 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 29 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |