Example sentences of "sort of [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |
| 2 | Yes you just write over the top , sort of write over the top of it and it raises off |
| 3 | I ai n't seen this series I just sort of remember from the last series . |
| 4 | she 'll be sort of liaise between the police , the court and the erm prosecuting service |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It makes everything look sort of fuzzy , and when cars drive past , their lights sort of fill up the street . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 9 | And he 's come back and sort of go round the back cos that other fellow sort of he came down |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I thought great , I thought , I thought everybody else sort of cringe about the way that maybe they were over power dressed . |
| 12 | 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 , |
| 13 | Individually they are hard to spot , they sort of melt into the crowd . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You usually look at that person , and when you coming to the end of your your your speel , you sort of look at the one person . |
| 16 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 17 | Well I said I sort of trundle down the stairs and have me breakfast |
| 18 | Well , it does n't sort of impinge on the Sunday School or is n't likely |
| 19 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | to get the cement job and then sort of say to the |