Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sort of work did the maids do in the house ? |
| 2 | What sort of influence did the directors and managers have with choosing the team ? |
| 3 | The one pipe pumped it full , the other — you were always scared it stuck , some sort of ballcock worked the thing — splashed it out . |
| 4 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 5 | In fact , what sort of shape did the midfield play ? |
| 6 | This sort of approach suited the violent attitudes of the age : as much money was invested in expeditions for private warfare against Spain as in all the trading and land-settling companies of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 7 | Whether or not we are prepared to accept that the Neanderthals had an advanced but abstract civilization , we are left with a question : what sort of civilization did the Neanderthals have ? |
| 8 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 9 | And the other one is did the d what sort of certification did the drivers have ? |