Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [det] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These nine Orkney children were not informed ; they were not told the Hearing was taking place ; , they were not given any sort of explanation . |
| 2 | Their books , The Painting of Modern Life and Fin-de-siècle Vienna , though receiving recognition in specialist circles , have not had any sort of widespread resonance in the more general debates . |
| 3 | But she has n't got many sort of major |
| 4 | But they have n't done that , you know , the next time we went they had n't got that sort of seating arrangement . |
| 5 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 6 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 7 | Well , that 's true , of course , but after all , I would be a different person if I had n't had that sort of childhood . |
| 8 | We have n't had that sort of figure very often before . |
| 9 | I said , ‘ You have n't encountered this sort of thing personally , have you , Shanti ? ’ |
| 10 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |