Example sentences of "be [adv] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 2 | Most Boehme works that come up are later than this circa 1804 pot ( though , oddly enough , with one sold in Delaware , and one at Christie 's , this was the third sold in a month ) , are generally sort of ‘ provincial Philadelphia ’ in style , and lack the soaring and presence of this one , which went to an Eastern private collector for $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 3 | and then maybe only one or two or three other interests you got you go to into very deeply the rest are just sort of friends |
| 4 | And these are just sort of piling up together well they they can all be if we choose it right we can make it usually make it one . |
| 5 | There are some things which are just sort of have a fairly short lifetime , both in terms of the interest of the event and also the , also the interest of the press in it in which case you just have to use your judgement . |
| 6 | So they 're effectively sort of grants and ye in , in that way . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it 's cos they 're so sort of worked up that they 've got no control over what they 're doing but umm . |
| 8 | Usually , couple of years and you get , you get erm a promotion , but there 's nothing , and the , the jobs that are coming up they 're erm they 're already sort of la allocated to people been given promotion . |
| 9 | They 're just sort of painted on — you know , like black dots . |
| 10 | They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same . |
| 11 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 12 | That 's really all we 're doing we 're just sort of counting how many would we have if we have twelve add twelve . |
| 13 | you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else . |
| 14 | I mean if they 're just sort of four foot things I mean it 's not you know I think . |
| 15 | Well , I think it 's like everything else , I think that er , with , with Lawrence being off they 're just sort of meeting everything as a crisis and getting , getting |
| 16 | Well yes Philip 's a student but they 're just sort of paying , it 's just rented sort of thing but erm |
| 17 | yeah yeah we were just , we 're just sort of moving a car length at a time were n't we ? |
| 18 | they 're just sort of shooting |
| 19 | But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility |
| 20 | I I du n no I I I ca n't work out cos all of Dan 's girlfriends yeah Amber , Sonia and Honey most people have all said I do n't think she 's right for Dan and you know I ca n't I ca n't work out whether they actually think that or they 're just sort of saying that because he does n't talk to them as much or something , I do n't know . |
| 21 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |
| 22 | You 're still sort of saying I get a discount really , you 're still saying it 's only going to cost me two hundred a year . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're more sort of , I do n't know , hurt . ’ |
| 24 | We 're more sort of settled down , matured more , I think . |
| 25 | I 'm responsible for the sort of overall management , but I tend not to get out as much as say , Area Housing Officers , they 're more sort of at grass roots . |
| 26 | And do you know those advert features that they do in the States , they 're like sort of like half hour adverts , like they 're like shows but they 're like an advert |
| 27 | And er we 're now sort of waiting to get serious enough . |
| 28 | Eleven to twelve , so you 're really sort of moderate preference , it 's not a , it 's not a strong preference a moderate preference and then the pragmatist again that 's quite high very strong preference is seventeen to twenty and again John edge of that . |
| 29 | Do you think a lot of people do that , or do you think you 're particularly sort of |
| 30 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |