Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to sort [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
2 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
3 | But I I thought I had to sort of do something . |
4 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
5 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
6 | You , you kept them and you tried to sort of let people have them who you felt deserved them you know most . |
7 | She 'd ge nothing everything she did she had to sort of beautify it and put some embroidery on it . |
8 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
9 | Yeah , but you had to sort of force him to go and take some |
10 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |
11 | So I mean you had to sort of come up , and grab a breath , and go under the water and try and swim away from it . |
12 | And so I mean you had to sort of go up several flights of stairs and you walked in and it , it looked lovely . |
13 | You 'd got the toilet there and behind the door , I mean you had to sort of squeeze yourself and shut the door , and behind the door was a shower . |
14 | Erm , you can have a twelve o'clock bus , if you wanted to sort of flee your premises , with a packed lunch , or without a packed lunch , if you er , if you do n't want to do that . |
15 | Erm greeting and appropriate sociability fine , you were a little bit nervous so you tended to sort of talk over me a little bit but that 's not a problem , it probably would n't happen in real life . |
16 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
17 | The only time I spoke to the cameras was when me and another woman were in the kitchen and we had to sort of make a conversation . |
18 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
19 | Yes they do they it 's it 's yeah they they liked to sort of erm I think they felt a bit shy in the beginning and yet you know |
20 | That there was a that they were gon na be trailing behind the peasant movement and that how that they had to sort of get a hold over all the all the changes that were happening in the country . |
21 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
22 | Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale . |
23 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |