Example sentences of "be sort [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's also a lot of stress in hobbies , sport , because you 're , you 're sort of challenged , you want to win something , or , even your hobby , you want to get something right . |
| 2 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 3 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |
| 4 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 5 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 6 | So there will be quite a rainforest theme to May 7th , which is where we 're sort of hoping to launch everything , and start selling tickets for the events , things like that . |
| 7 | which you do , and then you 're er you know in their eyes you 're , you 're sort of trained to some sort of level for their sort of work . |
| 8 | Er you you 're sort of chatting away and people come in and they 're all over the place , so er |
| 9 | and they 're sort of chatting saying , well , you know , I 'm an American they were trying to chat us |
| 10 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 11 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 12 | When you when you come up here and do the driving you find that erm because people are are just not available at the time and erm y I 'm here just for a and Stan only here for a a limited period , and er you 're sort of trying they 're downstairs they 're trying to get people off the trucks when they come in or whatever the case may be to go out and do an assessment run , and it 's not always possible . |
| 13 | well we 're sort of trying an experiment |
| 14 | I mean the bas if you 're sort of wanting to take any holiday or time |
| 15 | Yeah , so we need to yeah , we 're , we 're sort of thinking about it |
| 16 | So you 're sort of thinking at different levels . |
| 17 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 18 | Even when you 're ringing them , you know somebody that 's got two parcels a week , they 're sort of thinking , why are you ringing me . |
| 19 | Yeah you 're sort of thinking when my why got a card and then they tell you to look round , how much it 's gon na cost you and I mean , you know , jus jus just you know is everything gon na work out , you know ? |
| 20 | It 's really if you 're sort of gon na be away for a couple of weeks . |
| 21 | Are there any absent friends who 're sort of gon na appear imminently ? |
| 22 | Erm distinction made when you 're sort of talking about audiences th the sort of participating audience where we interact and there 's the one where I sort of talk to you and you 're passive that . |
| 23 | Well , you 're sort of offering in broad lines ha ? |
| 24 | So erm they 're sort of having a few words at the moment . |
| 25 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 26 | And we 're sort of saying , we have n't actually got round to formalizing it yet . |
| 27 | They 're sort of saying that you are really testing your |
| 28 | hang on hang on now if you 're talking to a mathematician and you 're sort of saying cos squared is well erm you know if I integrate that ah I 'm going to get cos so if erm well I 'll just change that there and I 'll fiddle |
| 29 | I almost envy the unemployed when they 're sort of walking along the side the canal and |
| 30 | Yes , usually it 's you 're sort of bombarded from all sides by |