Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just sort of rushing through this a bit , and I 'm trying to show where the where most people get it wrong . |
| 2 | So although you would have I do n't know but I I hope I 'm not sort of I really am trying to find out although you 'd have his coffin in the front room where you would be living |
| 3 | er I mean I 'm not sort of trying to point the finger at her , but |
| 4 | You know , I 'm not sort of er |
| 5 | I 've never really been , like , single single cos I 'm always sort of like , not actually going out with somebody but I 'm always , I 've always got someone who sort of fancies me or I 'm flirting with . |
| 6 | I 'm really sort of stopping my myself from saying things , but |
| 7 | I 'm still sort of puzzling what the best thing , best thing to do for that hedge down there . |
| 8 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 9 | Not that I 'm any sort of expert but I had misspent much of a happy youth in the ‘ feeling lucky , punk ? ’ school of cinema and I could tell Clint Eastwood 's Magnum from , say , The Magnificent Seven's Colt .45s , blindfolded . |
| 10 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 11 | yeah , so I was n't sort of having a go , I just did n't know which way we at Friends Provident would go . |
| 12 | No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted . |
| 13 | I was just sort of helping . |
| 14 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 15 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 16 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |
| 17 | It was funny cos I could hear them talking and I was really sort of like |
| 18 | and you , , I used to eat so slow they 'd all all sort of finish and I was still sort of tuck |
| 19 | And I said , yeah , but I was very sort of non-committal |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Which are now sort of grown up but er known them all my life . |
| 22 | which is really sort of really sort of Bet you organise your bag , see what else you 've got to put in . |
| 23 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 24 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | you 're not sort of ploughing through you 're you know , you 're picking it up and your bringing it I like the way you the way you 're assimilating it . |
| 27 | That you 're not sort of , Oh just I 'll memorize this lot . |
| 28 | I mean you 're you 're not sort of right in the centre of town , but |
| 29 | yeah , Cliff was saying that er , he said all yeah , he said he 's er he goes through the if , if you 're not sort of paying attention to him you |
| 30 | You 're not sort of good in it ooh look at washing blowing Sue ! |