Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun] you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurtured from their East End up bringing under the patronage of Punk revolutionary Jimmy Pursey , producer of their debut ‘ Flares & Slippers ’ EP , they fast became the sort of blokes you 'd avoid in the kebab shop come chucking out time . |
| 2 | Nurtured from their East End up bringing under the patronage of Punk revolutionary Jimmy Pursey , producer of their debut ‘ Flares & Slippers ’ EP , they fast became the sort of blokes you 'd avoid in the kebab shop come chucking out time . |
| 3 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 4 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
| 5 | This is the sort of stuff you should be asking us ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 6 | If you want to fit lots of peripherals to your server then this is the sort of casing you 'll want — it has no less than four free 5.25-inch drive bays plus a pair of 3.5-inch bays . |
| 7 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 8 | Exactly the sort of man you would not suspect . |
| 9 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 10 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 11 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 12 | hundred a month erm have you any idea of what sort of budget you will be , be looking at ? |
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| 14 | The sort of sites you 'd expect to see allocated in a local plan . |
| 15 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 16 | the sort of contracts you would , you know , I mean , you , you have with producers anyway managements |
| 17 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
| 18 | Not the sort of offspring you 'd be proud of if you were in politics , or some other branch of the upper social orders . |
| 19 | I actually said what I meant , used the sort of word you 'd normally only hear from your golfing chums or your rugby pals . |
| 20 | Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar . |
| 21 | I think it 's probably fairly similar , but of course it gets more sophisticated , both in terms of the intellectual level at which you talk about chemistry , the concepts and so forth , and also in terms of the sort of experiments you can do because we have such sophisticated apparatus now , which you could n't possibly get in a school laboratory . |
| 22 | Maybe British Rail should start to reserve seats according to what sort of conversation you would like to have . |
| 23 | The sort of obstacles you might come across on a typical walk include crops or overgrown natural vegetation , missing styles or gates and badly drained land . |
| 24 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 25 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 26 | The sort of relationship you will be seeking to establish is rather like the one you have with good business colleagues . |
| 27 | And ask yourself a question , are they really a sort of dirty Harry or sweeney sort of officers you would be lead to believe . |
| 28 | The Cymbalines , on the other hand , are the sort of boys you could take home to your parents along with their jangly , tuneful brand of guitar pop as-it-used-to-be-played before the hairies took over . |
| 29 | The sort of voice you could just nod off to . |
| 30 | He certainly did n't look like the sort of friend you would have , Chris . ’ |