Example sentences of "sort of [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She seems very masculine , with short hair , jeans and heavy boots and she has a sort of butch look I ca n't describe . |
| 2 | The sort of Soviet Union we can do business with |
| 3 | ‘ The statement of compliance with the Cadbury Code will be reduced to the sort of anodyne stuff you sadly read about the employment of disabled people in directors ’ reports . |
| 4 | The only thing bothering the Captain at this stage was the sort of Substitute Prosecutor he would get . |
| 5 | Details of how far they walked , how long it took them , when this was done and what sort of overnight accommodation they used , would be relevant to my research . |
| 6 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 7 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 8 | So a thousand twelve hundred quid is the sort of is the sort of minimum figure you |
| 9 | If , at any point , I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless — a prisoner or a caged bird — I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife , asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked , and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening . |
| 10 | It 's the sort of shabby restaurant you can still find in France : radishes and butter and spiced olives for nibbles , enormous roses plonked on the table and football on the TV in a back room are the setting for the very best pommes frites and memorable dishes of brains a beurre blanc and kidneys in garlic . |
| 11 | I do n't mean the sort of official crime I deal with as a solicitor . |
| 12 | Oh yes , and seeing whether you 'd yes , how you were coping with it and whether you got too involved or whether you did n't get involved enough or whether you actually were able to sort of get this balance between erm the sort of emotional support you give and the actual practical help which maybe they need in some sort of way , you know because I mean |
| 13 | You know , what sort of emotional stuff they try and dump on you , |
| 14 | In a sense responding to our questions , naturally , depending on how they 've been treated by their employer can we have your comments about the sort of legal framework you think the pension fund should be in and then Jeremy will take over . |
| 15 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 16 | The most sort of personal thing I suppose , erm , let the group open . |
| 17 | Genuinely skilled workers in this country are simply too scarce for the sort of industrial base we want to create . |
| 18 | If you use a ruler or some sort of straight edge it really does help because it 's very |
| 19 | She was n't in the mood to cope with Kegan 's heavy playfulness , the sort of labored gallantry he produced whenever they met at official hospital functions . |
| 20 | We also know that the Government are not reluctant to make it clear to those working on their behalf exactly what sort of political message they want to receive . |
| 21 | What are we going I mean we we 've heard also I 'm changing the subject now because that was the the sort of political answer I 'd expect and er I suppose until I get somebody else come on and say he 's talking absolute whatever er I mean I think it is down to the people who live and work with the school . |
| 22 | We can go a bit further with the analysis , and look at what sort of young girl she is depicting . |
| 23 | However , consider the sort of lexical content you would expect to find associated with the forms treatment , landing , party and basin in a dictionary entry , and note how finding the forms embedded within a co-text constrains their interpretation . |
| 24 | Apart from himself , the only people he really cares about are his listeners ; the radio relationship is the only sort of genuine love-affair he 's ever known . |
| 25 | Mr Gorbachev has again postponed a decision on what sort of economic system he is aiming for by referring the question of private land ownership to a referendum ; when this will take place and exactly what it will ask are not yet decided . |
| 26 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 27 | The fatal thing is to try and follow the sort of gradual schedule you would with a much older child . |
| 28 | and well I 've , I 've had a sort of split feeling I wanted to be here |
| 29 | We need stability over the medium term at the very least in order to produce the units that we need , not this sort of one minute you 're off , one minute you 're not and again , if you were serious the resources were already there , there in terms of the capital receipts that people already had . |
| 30 | A couple of girls go past and they got this red sparkly stuff wrapped round their necks — you know , a sort of silvery string they hang on Christmas trees . |