Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny were sort of company is n't it ? |
| 2 | If this was sort of a cubic or something then you 'd have all sorts of terms and you could chance of making a mistake . |
| 3 | well fucking pissed as well , cor Jesus Yeah we played back , obv obviously this , this was sort of , we were |
| 4 | Umm this was sort of in clear water , getting in more to clear water . |
| 5 | get the , this was sort of part just along here |
| 6 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 7 | Erm we boys , my father used to s what we call stud our shoes , and they were round sort of metal studs , and these were sort of knocked into your soles to save the leather . |
| 8 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 9 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 10 | So that was sort of completely misunderstanding the question , |
| 11 | So that was sort of on this one . |
| 12 | Then you got married then and that was sort of the sum total of it . |
| 13 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 14 | That , that was sort of the initial cover was it , two thousand ? |
| 15 | That , that , that was sort of |
| 16 | Well that was sort of mostly to , to be buying erm |
| 17 | That was sort of like forties and under . |