Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] you can " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 2 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 3 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 4 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 5 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 6 | And so it would be most interesting to see what sort of patent you can come up with for policy , and and and and and and we 'll see just just how you 'll meet that . |
| 7 | IT 'S NOT THE SORT OF JOB YOU CAN SWITCH OFF FROM |
| 8 | Accordingly , with 15 or so investments on his books , he stresses : ‘ It 's not the sort of job you can switch off from . |
| 9 | The sort of pet you can keep depends very much on where you live , whether you work or are out all day , and how much money you have . |
| 10 | Because of the nature of this sort of book you can afford to let the identity of the murderer become more obvious much earlier than if you were writing the classical blueprint . |
| 11 | Or you can just yeah you can just use the sort of line you can see through there . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , it is n't the sort of place you can just take a look at . ’ |
| 13 | This illustrates , too , the other key point about demonstration : it does not have to be done every time by the sort of presenter you can find selling vegetable slicers in Selfridges ' basement , as a straight , face-to-the-camera spiel . |
| 14 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 15 | Publisher Hugh Murray graphically illustrates the sort of thing you can still expect when you arrive home and take refuge behind the walls . |
| 16 | When journalists resort to this sort of thing you can be sure that the facts are drab in the extreme , and believe me , they do n't come much drabber than our Bargain Weekend Break at the Elan Valley Lodge . |
| 17 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 18 | You know that sort of thing you can |
| 19 | It 's not the sort of thing you can take with you . |
| 20 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |