Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked at your planet Uulaa , and I know what sorts of fun you would seek there . |
| 2 | Regardless of which product you choose and , if you produce different sorts of document you may well end up with more than one , the important thing is to select the correct tool for the job . |
| 3 | There are several sorts of truth I could tell about this decade of work . |
| 4 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 5 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 6 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
| 7 | This is the sort of stuff you should be asking us ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 8 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had teeth and tentacles all over the place that 's just the sort of message I 'd send . |
| 10 | If you want to fit lots of peripherals to your server then this is the sort of casing you 'll want — it has no less than four free 5.25-inch drive bays plus a pair of 3.5-inch bays . |
| 11 | All the groups in the survey had a fixed idea about the sort of worker they would meet at the CAB : female , over 50 , middle or upper class and authoritarian . |
| 12 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 13 | In the meanwhile , careers officers suggest that graduates lower their expectations of the sort of work they will get when they leave university . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel closer to Chris , doing the sort of work he used to do , ’ she said to Sarah . |
| 15 | North out half Derek Wilson had the sort of day he will want to forget . |
| 16 | Looking down into his eyes , Harry Pascoe knew instinctively that there was in Tristram the makings of the sort of man he would have liked to have been himself : a man of honour , a man untroubled by jealousy or a guilty conscience . |
| 17 | Exactly the sort of man you would not suspect . |
| 18 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 19 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 20 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 21 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
| 22 | hundred a month erm have you any idea of what sort of budget you will be , be looking at ? |
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| 24 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 25 | And it was the last sort of confession I 'd ever have expected from Oliver . |
| 26 | The sort of way we can help is the mother and toddlers groups in this kind of thing , where the parents are involved and inevitably do learn quite a lot erm , about how to function and you know , to play with them , and the things that they enjoy . |
| 27 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 28 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the sort of performance we would expect from an understudy , ’ was one review I had . |
| 30 | ‘ It is that sort of tradition I shall be seeking to foster , albeit in lower percentage terms , ’ he said . |