Example sentences of "sort [prep] [vb past] [prep] [art] " 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 And I mean whereas if I sort of came from a middle class background I think people would have thought differently of me .
3 And we sort of walked round the town and back to where we 'd parked the car and there were there were places you know , pubs and cafes which are
4 He just sort of glanced at the photos and then carried on talking .
5 I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class .
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 ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’
8 She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps .
9 I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea .
10 But er , I never , never sort of thought about the Guild , going to the Guild erm at all really , because erm mother , I say , was in the Guild till she died in nineteen forty-three .
11 anyway , and I sort of said to the waitress , why what was it ?
12 We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that .
13 Was he , sort of stood at the pool ?
14 I sort of nodded into a half-sleep sitting up at the counter .
15 He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end .
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