Example sentences of "sort of [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , I hear it totally now that I 'm familiar with all these blues licks , and so I 'm starting to apply that sort of thinking to the more modern type of playing . |
| 2 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 3 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 4 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 5 | anyway , and I sort of said to the waitress , why what was it ? |
| 6 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 7 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 8 | I 'd like to stay here on the floor but there 's cars beeping at me and I think I 'm lying in the road , so I push myself up and sort of crawl to the pavement . |
| 9 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 10 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 11 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 12 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | to get the cement job and then sort of say to the |