Example sentences of "[conj] it sort " in BNC.
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1 | Erm I I think that one of the erm , drawbacks in using animals for any kind of testing is that it sort of precludes in some way using alternatives . |
2 | Just a , I find that she almost looks as if she 's been out in the sun and that it sort of looks like very strong sunlight on her face which is a shame really . |
3 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
4 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
5 | It should be a nice sound , but it 's too loud and it sort of upsets me . |
6 | And it sort of weighed me down and slowed me down till my legs could n't hardly move . |
7 | Does n't come off so easily and it sort goes into it a bit , |
8 | Erm and , and it sort of explains to you what 's happening . |
9 | It actually helps our morale does n't it and it sort of helps our confidence . |
10 | . And it sort of conditions you a bit , so later on whenever you see it , you sort of get hypnotized mesmerized |
11 | And it sort of fades . |
12 | and it sort of throws the heat out into the room . |
13 | Then I realised what I was saying , and it sort of realised that it was n't really a a complimentary thing to say to her . |
14 | Well , he 's only done it once and that was when it was in a coat pocket and he pulled it out and it sort of must |
15 | And it sort of lets them know who you belong to . |
16 | It is if you if you want to go and see it and get a sort sense of history without a lot of shall we say school school book text type history , but just local history excellent I I I was there well the tour was erm an hour and three quarters and it sort of ran out of light more than ran of talk . |
17 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
18 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
19 | Cos it sort of slightly |
20 | put that one in at the moment cos it sort of . |
21 | But it 's all all this is okay , but it sort of makes your brain ache after a bit and to just see something real that relates to it it 's makes it stick in your |
22 | ‘ But it sort of trivialises what we 're about . |
23 | I would n't say it encourages you but it sort of you know you 're going to get away with it . |
24 | ‘ But it sort of trivialises what we 're about . |
25 | not as much but it sort of come out like that and then you sit your flowers it makes that a shell if you know what I mean ? |
26 | I do n't know whether , whether it sort of erm rang any bells with you but normally if you 're in a house people do n't offer you dri they usually say would you like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee and I just wondered , perhaps it 's my suspicious nature , whether this guy 's got a drink problem |
27 | Erm when it sort of begins to sort of season |