Example sentences of "be kind of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 2 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
| 3 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 4 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 5 | To open yourself up to someone like that , I am a failure , then you 're kind of establishing a different level of relationship are n't you . |
| 6 | So you remember them but they do n't have any significance because you do n't link it up with an emotion , or with a situation , or with other er ideas , they 're kind of isolated . |
| 7 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 8 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 9 | Very often they 're , they 're kind of divided up in this isolated way . |
| 10 | However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . |
| 11 | You may be kind of blackmailing people to perhaps indiscriminately offer hospitality . |
| 12 | And the fairies was boat you see but they were kind of wandering kind of things . |
| 13 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 14 | Sorry what I was gon na suggest on that in a way this is kind of preempting something else , you know , the , the bit on the agenda for it , I always put them in its back , back together when I write , erm |
| 15 | What I want to do though is is kind of thank a few people for start off . |
| 16 | I mean everything is kind of steaming up |
| 17 | And this bit here at the top is kind of starting to go . |
| 18 | No , we used to actually actually do that , like you had nights out , maybe Christmas and certain times of the year you had a night but that 's kind of stopped here . |
| 19 | He 's kind of revealing his inadequacies and failures , is n't he ? |
| 20 | So he 's kind of making a joke about it but there is a serious point there as well . |
| 21 | She 's got one , it 's flat , it 's not flat but it 's kind of deflated , she 's getting er , doing handstands on it and she 's going my head , it 's my head |
| 22 | When anyone 's like that with me or with one of my friends she just sits there looking at you because , cos she 's big , she 's kind of threatening sometimes , you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | It 's kind of quiet these days , since the railroad pulled out . |
| 24 | He 's kind of teasing Nick and saying , I 've got all these degrees . |
| 25 | ‘ My brother was the one who was playing guitar first , ’ he told me , ‘ so I was kind of influenced by him originally . ’ |
| 26 | He was kind of looking down and twiddling his pen , you know … and I mean I know it sounds stupid , but I did n't mind , I think I knew anyway . |
| 27 | By going to the household I was kind of taking the salt ; I was realistically enhancing my prospects of survival . |
| 28 | Had er , I was gon na say was n't in the game , I just thought he was kind of harden |
| 29 | Well he replied he was kind of flopping about . |
| 30 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |