Example sentences of "a sort of [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , mine is a sort of hole in the wall — not possible to move — so I spend more time running back and forth to fetch tools than I do using them . |
| 2 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 3 | There was a certain strength in this ; for good teachers , that sense of professional independence was challenging and exhilarating , and there was a sort of pride in the assertion of ownership . |
| 4 | And there 'll be a sort of lunch in the cookhouse , nothing here . ’ |
| 5 | As the net closed in , guided by a man balancing in a sort of tub in the water , the fish jumped higher and higher out of the water , and some of them managed to escape . |
| 6 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 7 | Erm , there 's a sort of shop in the mall that sort of sells , oh it , it does key cutting and heeling and stuff , we got one from there in the end . |
| 8 | They came to a sort of crossroads in the kitchens . |
| 9 | There was the slightest suspicion of something behind her , up in the cockpit : a whisper of movement — not even that : a sort of parenthesis in the silence where a whisper would have been if anything had made one . |
| 10 | There was a sort of shame in it : however much you could point to this being done before by dedicated teachers for brilliantly promising pupils — there was still a sort of shame in the boy being farmed out . |
| 11 | But erm I remember er h having I was quite interested actually , er there was er a sort of loft in the stores . |
| 12 | The luggage made a sort of mountain in the barrow , and some of it would have to be lashed to the sides with ropes . |
| 13 | More moderate temperaments , to whom the patterning seemed a sort of death in the first place , are apt to remain stubbornly cheerful . |