Example sentences of "i [vb base] sort " in BNC.
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1 | I mean sort of patting things town , not stirring them up . ’ |
2 | Yeah but I I mean sort of patronize them |
3 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
4 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
5 | You know I mean sort of |
6 | Oh I know , but I mean sort of there , I do n't know she would actually when it comes to it , but if we see her up there cos we can do the |
7 | I mean sort yourself out and |
8 | Making making it , all I know sort of saving it , saving it perhaps to American news . |
9 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
10 | I try doing it , but I get sort of tangled up . |
11 | And I find sort of about an hour or so afterwards I do |
12 | I feel sort of fixed that it would be the best thing … you know it would . ’ |
13 | I feel sort of sick . |
14 | I feel sort of , ‘ So what ? ’ |
15 | There is a mystic , psychic quality about them that is pleasantly disturbing , and often one of them will gently take my hand and gaze steadily into my eyes as if willing me better and I feel sort of honoured to be welcomed into their society . |
16 | no well because your looking down on every body else you tend to feel erm , well I feel sort of that you 've got to er feel responsible for them and look after them |
17 | Yeah but I get really pissed off as well cos I well I , I wo n't like when I 'm with other people like and I talk about other pe like when I talk about Jenny and then I feel sort of like really two faced when I like start talking to Jenny and stuff . |
18 | Erm one problem I think is that you can you tend to look at letters I think sort of one or two letters together erm instead of trying to think of a whole word . |
19 | I mean it was it was a very small affair fortunately I think sort of glorifies it too much by giving it giving it the name , riot . |
20 | Erm and these are the fairly brief er Chairman I think , I am sorry for disappointing Mr because because erm I main properties but erm we are basically I think sort of more or less agreed parties that we actually want this . |
21 | I du n no because the school I think ends early I do n't know earlier than sort of I think sort of like June or something , but I mean I do n't know . |
22 | I 've sort of er I 've |
23 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
24 | Well I 've sort of got a note to say who did what this week , so I could tell you what I 've done this week and then you could tell me what you 've done this week . |
25 | ‘ I 've sort of had in the past . ’ |
26 | There 's not the mystery around it really and I 've sort of made that into one of my points about =bout my work and also erm I always thought perhaps once I became wealthy and had money I would do real paintings in oil and canvass . |
27 | Most of the other laws if , in a way , follow on from that one You 'll notice that I 've sort of spaced the writing out today so you have n't got to do so much . |
28 | Cara smiled , and confided , ‘ Actually , I was wondering what I was going to do with myself the four weeks he 's away — I 've sort of got used to having him around , ’ she tossed in , as if uncaring , when they all knew differently . |
29 | I 've sort of squeezed the tin foil so that it it fits very , very tightly around the middle . |
30 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |