Example sentences of "[verb] [be] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 2 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 3 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 4 | It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four . |
| 5 | Well that and I think the house you know was sort of |
| 6 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 7 | Sometimes it doesn especially if it 's just one thing outside there , like it might have been sort of a a three X or |
| 8 | And the extrovert and introvert , and judging and perceiving are sort of orientations . |
| 9 | and having been sort of helping |
| 10 | Percepts I think are sort of breaking things into their sort of components if you like . |
| 11 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 12 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 13 | I used to really go down there and all I did was sort of tick off what the lads had already done . |
| 14 | The only thing she offers is sort of help with Peter but that 's because she wants Peter . |
| 15 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 16 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 17 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |
| 18 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 19 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 20 | It , you know , the remarks one makes are sort of on a generalization basis , and obviously one speaks from sometimes one 's own personal experience . |
| 21 | Groups have been sort of defined in different types of groups . |
| 22 | Because very often on courses we find that people have been sort of nominated to go on courses , and quite honestly they do n't actually want to be there and they 're looking at their watch and as soon as they can get away that , that 's better . |
| 23 | That 's been sort of revolutionized , when you when you think that you used to have to buy , did n't have to buy your tea , but you used to buy a tea from the chemist shop and the only person that sold it was a chemist , that was . |
| 24 | And erm although there 's been sort of all sorts of stuff in the press , have you seen all this stuff in the press about endowments ? |
| 25 | It 's been sort of turbo charged |
| 26 | That 's right , yeah , cos I mean he 's , he 's certainly sort of , even though he 's been sort of prisoner , I mean , he 's seen what 's going on and , and he 's had what five years of it ? |
| 27 | so she said while you 've been doing that she said she 's been sort of gassing to anybody you know , so she said it 's been mentioned by management and they said oh well she 'll be able to sort of hovering while she stood there you know , time , time to natter she could be erm , got time to do that . |
| 28 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
| 29 | Right , Harold 's been sort of trying to have a look at it all week long , but he 's , he has n't really got time . |
| 30 | You see I think if I I 'm trying to en envisage it , if you are erm you , you live in an area and er there have been some er outbreaks of violence of , you know , a nasty nature , some people have been killed , there 's been sort of erm disruption and er and so on , I do n't know how you 'd feel , I think you may feel erm a bit concerned about this , you 'd see things breaking down and you would n't see quite where it 's going to , to lead . |