Example sentences of "[adv] sort of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get maximum press coverage and it looks good , but there is also equally a very considerable programme running , very gently sort of going at the community , working with the community , holding hands with the community and getting results erm a policy for for |
| 2 | He just sort of glanced at the photos and then carried on talking . |
| 3 | I ai n't seen this series I just sort of remember from the last series . |
| 4 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 5 | We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that . |
| 6 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |
| 7 | Yeah , she was just sort of coming down the stairs yeah it 's alright , you know , had a word with her |
| 8 | Are you still sort of staying at the same or |
| 9 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 10 | to get the cement job and then sort of say to the |
| 11 | Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite |
| 12 | I thought great , I thought , I thought everybody else sort of cringe about the way that maybe they were over power dressed . |
| 13 | But er , I never , never sort of thought about the Guild , going to the Guild erm at all really , because erm mother , I say , was in the Guild till she died in nineteen forty-three . |
| 14 | I 've had odd holidays with friends and my parents but this is the first time I 've actually sort of lived in the country . |