Example sentences of "[det] sort [prep] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move it that way or some sort of thing . |
| 2 | Here the confusions or uncertainties are the point of the passage : it does n't matter that the particulars of the caption are missing since this sort of thing was always happening . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I enjoy this sort of thing . |
| 4 | It 's just , you 're my idea of someone who this sort of thing would never happen to . |
| 5 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |
| 6 | Those who follow this sort of thing will tell you that yesterday 's recapitalisation of Ross Consumer Electronics was only a matter of time . |
| 7 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 8 | I believe this sort of thing does happen in the United States and some other countries where one of the pieces of information put before the judge at the stage of sentencing is a victim-impact statement . ’ |
| 9 | He was used to this sort of thing , he drives a big motorbike . |
| 10 | Most of them are probably muttering , ‘ I 'm too busy to get involved in this sort of thing . |
| 11 | Lord O'Hagan , the group 's social affairs spokesman , said : ‘ I object to being misrepresented and I want to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again . ’ |
| 12 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 13 | After half-an-hour of this sort of thing , it suddenly began to dawn on everybody that Mr Clarke had only got to clause one of the actual legislation . |
| 14 | This sort of thing is known here , in a touchingly post-colonial manner , as ‘ Thatcherism . ’ |
| 15 | This sort of thing was common between the wars , when one East European country after another tried to keep out foreign goods and capital . |
| 16 | ‘ I know , I understand : one lays oneself open to this sort of thing with animals . |
| 17 | We 'd better make sure no more of this sort of thing is going on . ’ |
| 18 | I mean , obviously you 're playing in a rather … or driving in the fast lane when you 're doing this sort of thing . ’ |
| 19 | Poor Father Vianney must have thought his sacrifices and self-denial in becoming a priest had scarcely been worthwhile if this sort of thing was going to happen . |
| 20 | ‘ Medieval England managed this sort of thing so much better , ’ I thought smugly . |
| 21 | It was against this sort of thing — the view that chapel attendance was nothing more than an opportunity to sit , to listen and , in part , to worship the preacher — that many Nonconformists reacted . |
| 22 | Rumours of the dispersal of families and the deportation of good working stock to forced-labour camps abounded ; but this sort of thing happened to other , less educated people . … |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd be a liar if I said this sort of thing has not crossed my mind , ’ says Knight . |
| 24 | If this sort of thing can happen to him , especially a year after Mr Dalglish gave in to the pressure , then everyone is vulnerable . |
| 25 | This sort of thing wo n't stop me . ’ |
| 26 | Rozhdestvensky does this sort of thing , but much more engagingly . |
| 27 | He could write this sort of thing . |
| 28 | ‘ This sort of thing , ’ she concluded . |
| 29 | Is this sort of thing on the increase because the authorities are more aware of the need to control and manipulate the photographers , or to present them with carefully chosen opportunities and photographers are under increasing pressures ? |
| 30 | I was hoping for the best , never believing this sort of thing could happen to my own little horse . |