Example sentences of "[vb pp] sort [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Charlotte always looked sort of
2 Y'know that some kinds of activity are considered sort of acceptable and others are n't y'know .
3 Oh , I 've been with Joyce since then , when had , used to live at Southwold , or near Southwold , and eh , we used to go there and she , she got killed where all the , she had a , a garden wall of felt sort of Fred Flintstone one , and there was a bend on the Ipswich erm , oh Ipswich Lowestoft road , right where she had this cottage
4 and you 're at A , let's say , let's say , North is that way , okay , and you you set this up and you have a look , you say , where 's that lighthouse , oh it 's on a bearing of forty five degrees , and a lot later when you 've sailed sort of past the lighthouse , or the lighthouse is behind you , you take a bearing , and you still go around clockwise ,
5 He was a hale fellow well met sort of Yorkshireman you know , a bluff Yorkshireman .
6 Okay so we can implement it like that in hardware but the major benefit and this was done sort of like sixties sort of sixty nine seventy was to realize that you could put it into a little package like that which of course is a random access memory .
7 I do n't know cos I 've never actually erm been in a place where they 've done sort of thing really .
8 Because er we 've done sort of I must Where did I write that if I 've lost that list , I suppose to keep Erm , Ron , tin and then you 've got hankies did n't you ?
9 Jane 's done sort of a good thing by getting out , but she 's gon na have to be an idiot
10 I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly .
11 I was arguing about the principle , that er , I mean , the lady who came to clean for me , was a nursing auxiliary , and if I 'd had rheumatism , she would have bathed me , and done sort of thing as well .
12 That was built sort of there .
13 And we were taught sort of er religious knowledge and all this sort of thing you know .
14 Right , so given sort of erm , public and semi-public institutions , right , represent a large proportion of the non- agricultural erm , employment opportunities , and as a result , alright , the rates of pay in the , in the civil service , essentially , are going to , going to determine erm , the urban , the urban wage rate .
15 Training Ffestiniog slate men one of these days they say there is no more Ffestiniog slate and that 's it its gone bankrupt and er But I mean that can be easily arranged sort of thing .
16 What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ?
17 And it was her second car that she 'd ever had sort of thing .
18 I mean she 's had sort of had this depression
19 have n't just to literally lie back there and the man says what happens , when it happens , and they 're to do as they 're told sort of thing because that obviously develops sexual abuse , women being raped , and attitudes that lead towards these things .
20 He 'd got sort of hard in consequence .
21 and the fear of people for each other that that lot might take away what I 've got sort of thing .
22 So if you want to just sort of remember them all , as a table we 've got sort of say acid plus metal and see what happens see what 's given off , well we get a salt a lot of the time do n't we and we
23 I would n't recommend this one it 's just this is good for me because it 's got sort of
24 Erm I 've got an information pack here which I 'll hand out at the end of the session and it 's got sort of four fairly erm useful leaflets in it .
25 Er but I think you know , you 've got sort of police walking around all the time , erm it can aggravate things rather than calm them .
26 What comes across in both my interests and any skills which is n't really reconcilable with this I do n't think is that erm I 've got sort of , because of , I think it 's cos of my academic experience cos I did an arts degree with a lot of research and stuff , is that I , I like researching , data collecting , processing information .
27 Erm this , this happens a lot , if I 've got sort of kids and the parents are sitting in , useless .
28 And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in .
29 They 've got sort of mind you they have their own training sort of regime as well , which in some ways is , means it 's quite good experience because it is structured in , in a , in a way to give you some training , whereas of course if you just go in to do a job then erm how much sort of training you get varies a bit .
30 Er , you can see that this is a I do n't know whether , it appears to be darker at the centre than it is round the edges , I do n't know whether you tried to burn it in just a little bit in the middle , holding back the edges , but it 's , it 's got sort of a darkish patch i in the centre .
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