Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 2 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 3 | Details are not yet available , but it is possible that Dr Threadneedle turned her into some sort of cyborg death machine . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps in those preceding silences he took himself through some sort of editing process , preparatory to making an entrance in which not a word would be wasted . |
| 5 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 6 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |
| 7 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |