Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's a bit of a nonsense to say that pigeons perch in trees you may see an odd pigeon sort of settle in a tree but not for long . |
| 2 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 3 | And I mean whereas if I sort of came from a middle class background I think people would have thought differently of me . |
| 4 | You sort of creep into a corner and hope she does n't see you . |
| 5 | The black powder 's just sort of gone to a a sludgy paste . |
| 6 | whereas you look back at the end of the day and if you have n't done what you did you sort of feel like a bit down ah and you wish you had |
| 7 | Like sort of ploughing through a field or erm yeah |
| 8 | Right erm these notes are sort of based on a lecture that I went to when I was in sixth form erm and the theme for it is , Men And Women , Do We Speak The Same Language ? |
| 9 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 10 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 11 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 12 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 13 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 14 | sort of ended in a little |
| 15 | Oh no no no , I mean I 'm alright if I sort of get on a a straight because oh these that are coming out |
| 16 | He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father . |
| 17 | But it does please me that we fight back , I like that , but it displeases me the way we sort of go under a little bit . |
| 18 | You grab your partner by the waist and sort of waddle for a bit , then stamp four times , hard with each foot , on the ground . |
| 19 | This man with long greasy hair and a sleeping bag sort of rolled into a ball comes over and starts looking in the bins . |
| 20 | I did n't expect this sort of driving from a three-times world champion . ’ |
| 21 | And I think he was keen on whether the person could do erm sort of surveying of a of a building and actually you know do the drawings |
| 22 | So with logs , if you can draw a picture and Do n't just sort of look at a picture in a book there 's a graph of Y equals log X. Do it yourself . |
| 23 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 24 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 25 | about the situation and sort of used in a sense about somebody 's situation . |
| 26 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 27 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 28 | Sort of classed as a labourer and |
| 29 | I sort of nodded into a half-sleep sitting up at the counter . |
| 30 | I can feel the lorries every time they go past — the ground sort of shakes like a whatnot — an earthquake . |