Example sentences of "[verb] been 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 | Sometimes it doesn especially if it 's just one thing outside there , like it might have been sort of a a three X or |
3 | and having been sort of helping |
4 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
5 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
6 | 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 |
7 | 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 . |
8 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
9 | Groups have been sort of defined in different types of groups . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | It 's been sort of turbo charged |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |