Example sentences of "sort [prep] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |
| 2 | What sort of take it every morning ? |
| 3 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 4 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
| 5 | For my benefit would you just like to sort of give me a quick rattle through as as as to what you intend to do . |
| 6 | Er , er , are you going to sort of give me a timetable that I can read through to the phone and that it 's not booked up |
| 7 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 8 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |
| 9 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
| 10 | We well ca n't you sort of give us an idea of what it 's about , the words and things you know and |
| 11 | Can you sort of give it a sweep ? |
| 12 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 13 | No , I 'd have to sort of wash it a little bit so I |
| 14 | What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually |
| 15 | I 'm still sort of puzzling what the best thing , best thing to do for that hedge down there . |
| 16 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 17 | on that to sort of show you the power of the system we were just using to erm The obvious thing to do is to label every area of the diagram , and do n't forget they do sometimes say , Seven were not interested in |
| 18 | Well I sort of gave them a choice , do they want to nominate who does overtime or do they want to have a cat or do they want to pay , get paid less and they said they 'll get paid less . |
| 19 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 20 | she sort of gave me an odd look |
| 21 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 23 | She sort of give me a |
| 24 | You know , sort of give it a good chance . |
| 25 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 26 | And then there 's this other one where i where it loses electrons , that 's sort of stretching it a bit . |
| 27 | functions it sort of throws you a bit . |
| 28 | Give you millions of examples , but they 're just examples , they 're not sort of showing you the shape of it . |