Example sentences of "sorting [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotional support of an outside group can be very helpful in sorting out a carer 's feelings of guilt and anger , which are very common reactions . |
| 2 | ‘ We were the good guys then , ’ said Mr M. ‘ We were sorting out a problem family for them . ’ |
| 3 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 4 | Lesley and Fuzz from Silverfish turn up from New York , where they 're sorting out a record deal . |
| 5 | In a small group discussion , it would be inappropriate and wasteful of valuable opportunities for interactive learning if the participants sat in silence sorting out a considered statement which each delivered when ready . |
| 6 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 7 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 8 | STRASBOURG are sorting out a new deal for Northern Ireland winger Michael Hughes — even though the Larne man has two years of his current contract remaining . |
| 9 | I went back to sorting out a schedule for the day with Simon , the proprietor of Snogogram International . |
| 10 | Saturday finds you still in the throes of sorting out a financial/ professional issue and you wo n't be able to really relax until you 've cleared up all unfinished business . |
| 11 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 12 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 13 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |