Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
| 2 | Exactly the sort of man you would not suspect . |
| 3 | And it was the last sort of confession I 'd ever have expected from Oliver . |
| 4 | I actually said what I meant , used the sort of word you 'd normally only hear from your golfing chums or your rugby pals . |
| 5 | Erm some people around , particularly a the Asian population around w then became worried about what sort of support they would actually get from , the police in real terms if outsiders came into the area . |
| 6 | It was the sort of fantasy she must not harbour . |
| 7 | The sort of voice you could just nod off to . |
| 8 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 9 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 10 | She looked little , and soft , and altogether charming , not at all the sort of person you would n't want to come and stay as Feargal had once intimated . |
| 11 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 12 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 13 | The friend said , ‘ That 's the sort of woman you 'll probably marry , ’ and Gould claims that he replied , ‘ No way , José . |
| 14 | ‘ Then it 's the only sort of passion you 'll ever get from me ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the sort of car I could enjoyably have . ’ |
| 16 | In this sort of book you may well find that the pattern of how-will-he-get-out-of-this is more convenient to use while underneath you get on with the purpose of your story . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , it is n't the sort of place you can just take a look at . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm sure he makes some sort of reaction I ca n't see . |
| 19 | not this sort of thing you would n't as I say |
| 20 | ‘ It was not the sort of thing you would normally say but you can maybe understand his point of view . |
| 21 | It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’ |
| 22 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 23 | Publisher Hugh Murray graphically illustrates the sort of thing you can still expect when you arrive home and take refuge behind the walls . |
| 24 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 25 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |