Example sentences of "sort of [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 2 | I think what really happened then [ the third time ] there was a sort of crackling in the noises as if someone was falling down . |
| 3 | I 've had odd holidays with friends and my parents but this is the first time I 've actually sort of lived in the country . |
| 4 | There was a strange sort of hissing in the bracken to the west which I could n't put a name to . |
| 5 | Yellow-like in colour it sort of floated in the air . |
| 6 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 7 | Yes , so I wondered whether if , I think we should take that up er , it does seem extraordinary that a big thing like that is , is sort of put in the odds and ends column . |
| 8 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 9 | Now Easter was taken up with the sort of playing in the streets virtually . |
| 10 | you know it does n't they they do n't erm sort of exist in the social security system like the rest of us do , |
| 11 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 12 | Tetsu tried to explain that this was a sort of tingling in the legs . |
| 13 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 14 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |
| 15 | You know I pl I I started this album really I started writing it while I was doing Love Hurts in Israel and Zoe would s sort of catch in the caravan , what the hell are you doing now , you know I was writing lyrics and thi , and I started to get keyed into this album just before I finished Love Hurts . |
| 16 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |
| 17 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 18 | And you can sort of join in the the church group . |
| 19 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 20 | and er that was one of Tom 's extras because I could very well remember , erm we had very little erm time off at Christmas and there was one year that erm , we just had the Christmas Day and erm erm Tom had this meeting on the Christmas Eve to decide who should erm attend the next week 's tractor course and erm , everybody was sort of feeling in the , sort of Christmas spirit and |
| 21 | ‘ I 've sort of had in the past . ’ |
| 22 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |