Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 2 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 3 | With 20 years experience in the retail business , she has come across all sorts of shoplifters , from down and outs to light-fingered public schoolgirls , and despises them all . |
| 4 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
| 5 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
| 6 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 7 | The rest were , came from all sorts of different backgrounds . |
| 8 | Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly benefits are coming from those sorts of changes that come from the Health Service reforms . |
| 10 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 11 | The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help . |
| 12 | did n't come from that sort of background . |
| 13 | I think that we must whe when we 're , we we must come to some sort of consensus in the staff as to what the levels mean in inverted commas . |
| 14 | But perhaps they 'll come to some sort of understanding . |
| 15 | The leaders of the groups that he mentions might well come to some sort of compromise — I might have achieved that — but I would not be able to command a majority of Members , who have other ideas . |
| 16 | Was there any sense of surprise really that as the quarrier was were Welshmen and most of the workforce were Welshmen that in fact things would come to some sort of agreement , that there would n't be this kind of |
| 17 | But assuming we it does come to some sort of settlement ultimately , are you saying then that you still doubt whether there 's that political will ? |
| 18 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I guess a lot of horror films come from that sort of background . |
| 20 | Franchisees come from all sorts of backgrounds , with women increasingly taking up the challenge . |
| 21 | The men and women I have met come from all sorts of social and employment backgrounds . |
| 22 | Erm prejudices come from all sorts of things , some of them are historical , some of them are generated out of things like football and arguments in the evening about good teams . |
| 23 | Nerve cells , or neurons , come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and perform a great variety of functions . |
| 24 | The other things that are important are no cups of coffee , no sticky buns on the table er my helpers do n't wear trousers or leggings because helpers , like the goods , come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and some of them look good and some of them do n't . |
| 25 | Just because I happen to like my shellsuit trousers , people come to all sorts of unflattering conclusions about me , generally involving Essex . |
| 26 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |
| 27 | I need to be able to read outputs of a maximum of 100A ( this may seem high but in my work you come across this sort of output ) . |
| 28 | Comes in all sorts of packaging . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry , but I 'm definitely a coward when it comes to this sort of thing . ’ |