Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 2 | I mean we 'll , we 'll obviously have to sort of keep a , keep an eye on all this all the way through |
| 3 | Well that 's something we would obviously have to sort of , I mean maybe it 's something where you know I mean with the |
| 4 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 5 | Or if you just want to sort of signify a , a quick thank you to someone . |
| 6 | Women , erm from men 's departments , cos they just , like she said they , I do n't know why , but they just seemed to sort of |
| 7 | Now I 'd just like to sort of This is a This is not very clear on here but I would just like to bring out This is an accident which happened down in Kent about two years ago now . |
| 8 | I 'd just like to sort of show you And th this is a |
| 9 | For my benefit would you just like to sort of give me a quick rattle through as as as to what you intend to do . |
| 10 | It 's interesting though , that after all this aggravation , the fact that er the Prime Minister nearly lost his job , er there was nearly another election erm there 's going to be no celebrations , no fireworks , no balloons , no huge dinners on Monday we 're just going to sort of peter into the Maastricht treaty coming into effect . |
| 11 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 12 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 13 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 14 | They just like to sort of I do n't know why but they just seem to sort of |
| 15 | They just like to sort of I do n't know why but they just seem to sort of |
| 16 | And I just have to go to or I just have to sort of explain that when you pack a van , you do n't pack it like the advert for KitKat . |
| 17 | Well I would have thought so but really erm I think you just need to sort of |
| 18 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 19 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 20 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 21 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 22 | They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit |
| 23 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 24 | Also one would have to work out whether peasants were subsistence minded in that how that once they 'd achieved their subsistence was that all they would want or would they really want to sort of erm work harder and start sharing all their tools and implements in order to gain an even higher productivity . |
| 25 | gives you a bit more time to decide exactly what you want to talk about cos if if it has go to be in week three or week four , then we really sort of like decide now what you 're going to write about so that n Cos next week is gon na be our last meeting on this topic , so you really want to sort of give a bit of a presentation on what you 're going to say . |
| 26 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 27 | the people that went before have to sort of do it , but as I say he was n't er , er |
| 28 | I think that 's very important and I think it 's , there 's er actually , I have to say er I detect in 's letter because I am quite sure that a year ago she would have questioned the parish council 's existence , and indeed she 's being , erm , to my perception , highly critical of er the fact that the parish council has even dared to sort of taste the oxygen outside their own homes . |
| 29 | erm I do n't think our culture is the worst that 's ever been and I think there 's a tendency sometimes to try to sort of overstate that . |
| 30 | Now if you get a situation like that I mean the key question is do people actually want to change in this kind of way , or would they at least like to sort of experiment a little bit in the way they handle a group of children ? |