Example sentences of "some sort of [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , sir , it 's not so irrelevant because while he was in that curacy there was some sort of row about a boy in the youth club . |
| 2 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 3 | Eadui Basan , a well-known Canterbury scribe who worked on several surviving de luxe manuscripts , forged S 914 , which purports to be a refoundation of the monastic community by Æthelred , possibly as some sort of safeguard at a time when Cnut was trying to force upon them , in his royal priest Eadsige , a non-monastic archbishop . |
| 4 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 5 | Now priests and even a couple of bishops appeared and Sophia felt a sense of relief , as if their presence were some sort of guarantee of a safe flight . |
| 6 | A Catholic newsletter addressed to Antoinette , L'Echo de la mode for Madeleine , and some sort of bill in a white envelope with a pearly paper window . |
| 7 | Her father was a life peer who had held some sort of office under a Labour government . |
| 8 | He 's rigged up some sort of snowplough behind a horse . ’ |
| 9 | Everyone forms some sort of impression of a person the first time that they meet . |