Example sentences of "[pron] [be] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 32 | I 'm not I 'm I 'm sort of like beginners course . |
| 33 | And nine times out of , alright say I 've got another four choices but nine times out of ten I 'll go and I will have put those four on , in the mood that I 'm sort of feeling then I 'll fucking , I want to listen to something completely different . |
| 34 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 35 | It 's my son , I 'm sort of playing it by ear , I 'm not quite sure what I 'm doing oh dear me not quite sure at all |
| 36 | for dinner and dinner parties so I 'm sort of frantically trying to cut down , and then , you know , one dinner party and then I put it |
| 37 | I mean , I 'm sort of looking realistically that after four years that the education system changes |
| 38 | and they 're going in my neck but I do n't wan na turn over cos she 'll fall off the bed and I 'm sort of going just on me and she 's really funny . |
| 39 | Or if my mother comes up , and I 'm sort of just getting up , she says , oh do you want me to bring stuff up , or ideally , I usually say or I 'll come downstairs and get breakfast . |
| 40 | Half my year 's gon na be gone , and I 'm sort of , going for the third year , and it 's really heavy . |
| 41 | I realize I 'm sort of giving a very , very negative impression , and I do n't want to give the suggestion either that being unemployed has to be always bad , that all unemployed people are having a totally horrible time all of the time and are feeling very depressed all of the time — that 's not the case — but I 'm afraid that is more like the average erm situation , the typical situation , than otherwise . |
| 42 | I think I 'm sort of rather reminded of when somebody said that Ronald Regan was going to stand for erm President . |
| 43 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 44 | I 've got to get back there and start arranging my erm Well I was n't very scintillating , I 'm sort of tired . |
| 45 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 46 | Music was a sideline and I was sort of the loner of the family , sitting for hours in my brother 's room listening to records . |
| 47 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 48 | I was sort of trying to figure out a way to weasel out of re-releasing it . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 50 | And I was sort of juggling , I did n't realize how much I was doing until one day shortly after mother 's death , a lady stopped me and she said has something happened to your mother ? |
| 51 | I was sort of torn between my mum and Keith then . |
| 52 | Well I was sort of erm |
| 53 | Just as I was sort of starting work . |
| 54 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 55 | It 's really , I mean next year I was sort of quite co I 'm quite committed to not having a year off so much as just exploring things and that 's what |
| 56 | So her husband brought the case in the Guild room on the Tuesday night and erm I was sort of throw 'd in at the deep end because they were mostly older women and they all said , oh well you 're secretary erm yo I said yes , but I do n't know the Co-op dual structure . |
| 57 | A bit difficult to explain — I was sort of keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 58 | I was sort of like more light-hearted sort of er like er got plenty of money , but it 's crappy pay . |
| 59 | I was sort of hoping any other people who were interested in standing for re-election might have came along to this Committee to show their |
| 60 | I was sort of telling you that bit . |