Example sentences of "sort of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 2 | She has the sort of smile that makes you think that any minute now she 's going to put her head on one side , but she never does . |
| 3 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 4 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 5 | The second type of explanation suggests that these people have some sort of defect that makes them less able to cope with environmental chemicals . |
| 6 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 7 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 8 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 9 | Yes , erm all our sort of cabbage stalks and beans stalks go onto the muck heap to turn into a sort of compost , but other people they just sort of burn or take them away and buy a bag of compost . |
| 10 | If you are a small family , look for models with the sort of controls that allow you rinse-and-hold cycles — a short cycle which rinses dishes for a short time to get rid of dried-on food and any smells so that they can then wait till you have a full load to put through . |
| 11 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 12 | The sort of job that pleased him most , this one . |
| 13 | Call me old-fashioned , but I think a lot of American actors just do a sort of swagger and leave it at that . |
| 14 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 15 | He had a close look at Shearer in Saturday 's match at Blackburn , and added : ‘ He 's the sort of player that makes you want to get the ball to him as many times as possible . |
| 16 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 17 | There was , she recalls , ‘ a sort of madness that overtook him . |
| 18 | We talked about each department erm being able to invest in their own technology and make their own er decisions on what sort of database or interface they would use to deploy their applications . |
| 19 | Does it make you want Is it the sort of ache that makes you want to wriggle it around ? |
| 20 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 21 | MICHAEL STICH last night came close to producing the sort of form that won him Wimbledon two years ago , to move into the semi-finals of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 22 | You do n't need , he , that sort of thing that turns you on or . |
| 23 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 24 | That 's the sort of thing that makes you realize you 're not going to find the job of your dreams just by going to the job centre . |
| 25 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |