Example sentences of "he [be] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's sort of half-lying on the floor , holding onto one of the benches . |
| 2 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 3 | I used to think he was so big — and now he 's sort of shrunk in on himself . |
| 4 | Actually , Mick 's in contact with Peter 's brother , also Mick , and he 's sort of taking care of himself now . |
| 5 | See a chap at work he 's sort of day dream , you 'll be talking to him and he 's miles away |
| 6 | Yes at the moment he 's sort of he he 's the lone ranger is n't he Collimore . |
| 7 | He 's not much of a character , he 's sort of a cardboard character is n't he , he 's just the other man , the man that they want to marry Juliet . |
| 8 | And he 's sort of picked himself up now , and he 's more , where I 'm getting involved . |
| 9 | I think , I do n't know if , I 'm finding it quite difficult at the moment because he , he 's sort of neither one thing nor the other and we 're out a lot sort of |
| 10 | and he 's sort of life sort of gone . |
| 11 | quite keen , well it is n't as if I 'm gon na stay for a year , he 's sort of thinking sort of you know going out there to work and I |
| 12 | he 's changed a lot , you know , he is n't the same person , you know he 's sort of more humble |
| 13 | And so er friends of ours , he 's got muscular dystrophy and he 's sort of in the same sort of and so we we 'll have a decrepit contingent , he and I will sort of and the two girls who are relatively young and healthy will go charging around and taking photographs and doing the tourist thing . |
| 14 | how Dave , I was saying about Dave and how he 's sort of taken , taken a completely different attitude to things . |
| 15 | Now , you see you 're lucky that that he 's , he 's sort of over there |
| 16 | He sticks his tongue a lot when he 's sort of gets excited or he 's doing something . |
| 17 | in , in his baby walk and he 's sort of |
| 18 | Dog sort of stood there and looked at you know , he did n't know where to put himself , let him , eventually he , he 's sort of , you can see it on his face did that , fucking thing keep away from me . |
| 19 | No idea he 's gone from being a Jewish rabbi last night and he 's he 's sort of gone okay we 'll leap now out of , so he 's leapt out of that one and he 's leapt straight into a fucking little boy 's erm body right , and he 's a mongoloid poor little soul and he 's a downs syndrome kid . |
| 20 | I do n't know if he 's sort of jealous of her and Stephen or what . |
| 21 | Like he 's sort of saying that he 's the boss ! |
| 22 | When you get out the door he 's sort of going the other way ! |
| 23 | I 've I , when I heard you saying you recognized his voice I thought to myself well perhaps he 's sort of inviting you to er , whatever ! |
| 24 | Well I think he 's sort of , he 's out of a job ai n't he ? |
| 25 | But I I th I think what we 're talking about is the fact th that Ma you know he 's writing in nineteen twenty seven , that , that he 's not quite sure about the means to an end , he 's sort of writing he , you know , it 's , in a way it 's like writing an essay |
| 26 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 27 | Yeah it 's got ta be taken seriously but I mean , you know , there 's , there 's no reason why we should believe every word he says , I mean he 's sort of |
| 28 | Well he 's , he 's sort of blaming , blaming the peasant , you know , the peasant situation on the local landlords . |
| 29 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 30 | Erm , think erm so he 's sort of bluffing , okay ? |