Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not trying to make it hard for you , I 'm trying to work out what is useful for you , cos it 's no good you just sort of more or less copying it out .
2 Being in the charts is one of those things you always dream of but now I 've done a few of those things already .
3 So if you learn the words this way thinking well do I know a word that 's a bit like it and could I add a bit onto the end that 's another way another good way of learning cos you do n't have to learn class and classical and classic you just sort of learn one of them .
4 The rest of the week I just sort of tidy round , dust , put the carpet sweeper over — that takes me till a quarter past three , when I go to meet my little girl from school , and I do n't very often get much done once she 's home …
5 I 'll cook curry or lasagne but I never knew , I never knew the recipes I just sort of stuff and think that goes together well
6 Yes , erm all our sort of cabbage stalks and beans stalks go onto the muck heap to turn into a sort of compost , but other people they just sort of burn or take them away and buy a bag of compost .
7 This road we also notice leads from King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] as a back entrance to Professor Coleman 's residence and garden , and to his stable , coach-house and kennel for his dogs — which , however , we understood he rarely used except in the shooting season .
8 Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain .
9 ‘ The band is the only thing I ever thing about to any great extent .
10 ‘ A status you clearly lack .
11 Other Side men they much difference .
12 I was pleased really cos er that way I never sort of missed any overtime .
13 After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn .
14 If the new democracies are denied markets for their goods , then they will be unable to obtain the hard currency they urgently need in order to carry out the far-reaching reforms that will modernise their economies .
15 The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’
16 The permanganate sprinkling method is less successful in wet weather , during which time I usually resort to carefully lifting a square foot of lawn with a spade .
17 The greatest number of worms are found under the lawn , but not wishing to destroy the lawn and since digging is not my forte I sometimes resort to other methods .
18 I ai n't seen this series I just sort of remember from the last series .
19 He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule .
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