Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Erm but this is the area up here Anne , that I was sort of thinking that we could if we can , some kind of trellis or something around this raised area here you could actually open this bit as the , as a pub on a |
| 3 | And anyway , he and I are sort of mates . |
| 4 | Sometimes I 'm working away up here in my studio — the name 's a bit too grand for the room , which is only 12 by 12 , but even so — and there 's music on the radio and I 'm sort of on automatic pilot . |
| 5 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 6 | erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City |
| 7 | And I 'm sort of thinking , oh my God , modern woman ! |
| 8 | and I 'm sort of thinking , why Thursday ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Half my year 's gon na be gone , and I 'm sort of , going for the third year , and it 's really heavy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | and I was sort of concentrating so I just |
| 16 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 17 | He had a cigarette in his hand and flicking ash up the carpet and I was looking at him , you know , and I was sort of going , and Jane was sat in here and she said , put that cigarette out ! |
| 18 | so I left it and I was sort of like , falling asleep so I thought oh right , and so I turned off my music , went to sleep , then woke up again and |
| 19 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 20 | Well , he was in this pen and I was sort of behind him |
| 21 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 22 | cos I was sort of lying in bed sort of late |
| 23 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 24 | I mean I 'm finding that you know through it because I 'm sort of straining all the time I 'm getting terrible headaches and all of the |
| 25 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 26 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 27 | But when I was at , you know , when I was a , when I was sort of feeding , cor ! |
| 28 | Just as I was sort of starting work . |
| 29 | Seeing as I 'm sort of got half into that one really . |