Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] sort " in BNC.

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1 Yeah I can get her to wait down sort of at the other end .
2 So we got behind So I said well we 'll tr I 'll try and get caught up sort of , in the new year you know , get them a bit .
3 Erm and some people that we we send out sort of tend to be there for either half an hour and others sort of .
4 Cos it came on sort of about middle of the day .
5 Yep cos it 's poisonous it kills off sort of virtually all life
6 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
7 what she was getting at , she knew exactly what she was shopping for , she went into that shop , there was the list , it was handed in , I bet it took her less time to shop then , than it did later when she went shopping with a vague idea well I must n't forget this , I must n't forget that , but then the wandering around sort of oh that looks nice and I fancy that
8 How did they did they begin in sort of in ones or twos ?
9 I mean often actually producing pieces of writing is , is , is quite a , you know , sort of long drawn out sort of er iterative process I suppose in , in mathematical terms erm you know you kind of go through it again and again erm I mean that 's one thing you ca but obviously that 's quite time consuming er
10 But if I remember correctly on one of the progr on television going back sort of two three months ago , one of the firms , and I think it was an electrical firm , was working a bit of a swift one erm they were getting people to sign a document which purported I think to be erm l l loaning money , hire agreement .
11 and that 's going back sort of three
12 Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two
13 But , er , other people start bringing up sort of problems with the French tax situation on such and such a structure of company or whatever , which is not anything we want to get involved with .
14 well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing
15 By the time we do our morning and the , you 're then getting up sort of thing you see
16 Erm I 'll go through the consultation paper and pick out sort of paragraph by paragraph and any that we particular agree or disagree with .
17 We 've tried to keep our our support group also you know to go back sort of as loose as possible that we have n't great great format of a chair and a secretary and a treasurer although we do have that frame work because we 've discovered we also needed some sort of structure .
18 All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here .
19 Remember there 's a file on top on my filing cabinet where both Trish worked out sort of simple lesson plans er , before we actually put them on oh they 're going up , not use the computer now are we ?
20 which is the excuse , I 'd rather somebody went along sort of said right I 'll have it done such and such a time rather than keep buggering about
21 Do you end up sort of metal box end ?
22 and I said would you integrate so it did n't stand out sort of too obviously four X cubed minus X times X squared .
23 Never has an apostrophe , it 's only on a noun that you 're going to do it , so , you could pick up sort of , just little , clues there as to , how to remember what you 're doing .
24 Your gradient would be would come out sort of all wrong then .
25 Me it wo n't come out red cos I 've got brown hair it 'll just come out sort of
26 But having said that , over the whole of the tropics , there 's something like a thousand million hectares of forest , of which one million is actually managed as sustained yield as defined by this book , which is erm managing the forest , and actually carrying out sort of operations to improve the regeneration afterwards .
27 I have n't told you how to d I 've told you how to change one third we 've looked at that have n't we and we and we 've worked out sort of how many twelfths would be in it and things like that .
28 So with my doo da it puts out sort of
29 Missed out sort of tentative benefits erm and went straight into , to talking about the , the C C Q. Er now wait a minute , where are we ?
30 So it sort of comes out sort of ringlets
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