Example sentences of "[be] sort of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 2 | I almost envy the unemployed when they 're sort of walking along the side the canal and |
| 3 | And that 's why they 're sort of clambering over the bridge , in order to get onto the shortcut . |
| 4 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 5 | erm what this gives us an opportunity to do is to further exploit and promote erm the English , or the sort of British holiday , and this is why we are sort of working on the theme ‘ Britain 's great ’ , because a lot of people have yet to discover various parts of Britain and there are all sorts of holidays , you know , across Britain , from Land 's End to County Antrim , from Loch Ness to London Town . |
| 6 | she 'll be sort of liaise between the police , the court and the erm prosecuting service |
| 7 | It could be sort of spread throughout the company . |
| 8 | I was saying to Jean this morning , cos it 's funny enough we went out to Dartington yesterday and we were sort of looking at the restaurant there at Cranks , and I said to her you know about this bowl of soup and then the erm |
| 9 | Er if they wanted to be on their roller skates or even on their bikes , then they were sort of going around the walkways . |
| 10 | We were sort of waiting for the sunset thing . |
| 11 | Yes , so I wondered whether if , I think we should take that up er , it does seem extraordinary that a big thing like that is , is sort of put in the odds and ends column . |
| 12 | You , you get a tin er and whoever 's sort of looking after the tin , er somebody kicks it , one 'll kick the tin and then you all go and hide , and he has to find you before you can come back and kick the tin . |
| 13 | But it it 's sort of built into the ground apparently so that it 'd be pretty low down . |
| 14 | There 's sort of brushes under the car so when it goes round it sweeps and washes the floor at the same time . |
| 15 | Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south . |
| 16 | Well it it obviously reduces the the amount of er of cash that 's sort of flowing round the . |
| 17 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 18 | get it , you see , but i it 's fantastic watching cos you know they were they , they it was sort of going along the |
| 19 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 20 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 21 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 22 | I mean , it was a windy day as well and I do n't think that helped because the wind was sort of blowing into the mike but er and when he took it to college there was this noise all the time , he must have had it clipped under here somewhere ! |
| 23 | and er that was one of Tom 's extras because I could very well remember , erm we had very little erm time off at Christmas and there was one year that erm , we just had the Christmas Day and erm erm Tom had this meeting on the Christmas Eve to decide who should erm attend the next week 's tractor course and erm , everybody was sort of feeling in the , sort of Christmas spirit and |