Example sentences of "but sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was ever so gentle and nice , but sort of piercing — went right through you — ’ |
| 2 | It ai n't like looking in a mirror cos I ai n't looking straight at myself , but sort of down from above . |
| 3 | Refuse to sweep difficulties under the carpet but sort things out even when it is painful . |
| 4 | He was only a year older , but sort of fatherly . |
| 5 | I 'm very bright and breezy , but sort of glassy looking . |
| 6 | It did n't exactly touch my hand , but sort of glided over it , wrinkling backwards and forwards . |
| 7 | Now if those , erm , wages in the civil service are set , not through sort of market process , but sort of through institutional er , constraints , you know , it 's unlikely there 's going to be sort of er , union power erm , in these sorts of jobs , but nevertheless , civil servants tend to do quite well at giving themselves pay increases |
| 8 | The great chamber , we do n't have great chambers now , but sort of the master bedroom , private sitting room , erm would have had a big bed in it . |
| 9 | and then start writing but sort of go over it a bit more , do a lot more talking first before |
| 10 | It was very confusing , key words , when we started using key words and when we asked because something was n't there , and we consulted the script , we were still cutting words out , but , at , the script was definite , but sort of like , two of them well they had doubts , and like we started cutting words out , and then like , the words that were out . |
| 11 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 12 | the cold anyway but sort of |
| 13 | They had n't got it it was n't , I mean you know to us it was qu , a cheap mortgage but sort of up there it was probably , you know sort of |
| 14 | And he was being nice , but sort of , jokingly nice and I goes oh yeah , you know ? |
| 15 | curly curly but sort of fuller and |
| 16 | I know , but sort of none there and just all sort of down there , like sort of Brian |
| 17 | They look really good fun , cos they 're like pedalos but sort of different are n't they ? |
| 18 | Not , not , not immediate you know but sort of , they do go do n't they ? |
| 19 | but , but sort of sudden movement of the body after |
| 20 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 21 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 22 | Not blonde , n not blonde blonde but sort of |