Example sentences of "[prep] [det] sorts of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well I know but er he had n't seen anyone , he reckons for well over a year and when phoned me up I agreed to have lunch with him and then he gave me an earful about all sorts of things including erm in Norwich issuing net fares on Norwich Amsterdam . |
| 2 | And salvation is not a long drawn out affair it 's not something we have to go through all sorts of processes to se , to finally achieve it , it 's there as God 's free gift waiting to be received . |
| 3 | ONE OF BRITAIN 'S most successful sculptors , Barry Flanagan , has been putting his steroid-injected bronze hares through all sorts of paces since 1979 — they leap , dance , box , bat , bowl , pose , cavort . |
| 4 | Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking . |
| 5 | Use these for all sorts of things from training the software to recognize your handwriting , to calling up an on-screen keyboard when your calligraphic skills fail completely . |
| 6 | Along with senior managers , Mike hosts site visits for all sorts of groups including schools and colleges and goes out to speak to local community groups . |
| 7 | We get a specific grant , sorry for the jargon , we get a specific grant from the Department of Health for all sorts of aspects of the management of our department and training our staff and so on . |
| 8 | He loves poking his nose into all sorts of things throughout Europe , whether relevant to his office or not . ’ |
| 9 | It also has an ensuite bathroom facility , with all sorts of things in little sealed packets for you to take home for your children . |
| 10 | It has 66 courses and 75 hotels , motels and condominiums offering a wide selection of accommodation , with all sorts of deals for the visiting golfer . |
| 11 | He 's been involved with all sorts of activities with neighbourhood associations , youth groups , Christian groups , alcoholics , prisoners and prostitutes . |
| 12 | Most booking conditions are hedged with all sorts of exclusions about why a tour operator ca n't be held liable when things go wrong . |
| 13 | I wondered whether he preferred the sexual experiences I imagined he must be having with all sorts of men to the one we shared . |
| 14 | Yes , I mean the main brute force of destroying tropical rainforest is population increase , pressure on land , and people going into forests , but a large part of that is determined by the government 's attitude , whether it in fact concentrates on trying to improve agriculture , or whether , under all sorts of pressures from the government to do that . |
| 15 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 16 | On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person . |
| 17 | We are called upon to make such statements in all sorts of circumstances in our constituencies and sometimes we do it slightly with tongue in cheek , but I can genuinely make such a statement about many homes . |
| 18 | As I mentioned previously , my , my accountant said , drop this , because it 's going to put me in all sorts of problems with my taxation and things . |
| 19 | For this job there 's little point in buying a hand drill ; invest in an electric drill , ideally one with a 13mm ( ½in ) chuck , variable speed control and hammer action , so you can tackle a wide range of drilling jobs in all sorts of materials with just one tool . |
| 20 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |
| 21 | The devotional lives of women gained increasing official recognition in all sorts of ways from the eleventh to the fifteenth century . |
| 22 | doing in lots of in all sorts of places in the B Tec level come in . |
| 23 | Otherwise , Mario 's apprenticeship was served in all sorts of bangers on Pennsylvania tracks near Nazareth , where the family settled in 1955 when Mario was fifteen . |
| 24 | It can be used in all sorts of recipes from paella or salmon and broccoli quiche to lemon layer-pudding . |
| 25 | My husband has knitted over 250 of these ( yes , this must be a record for one person ! ) from all sorts of scraps of yarn , on his standard gauge machine . |
| 26 | We get requests from all sorts of publications including encyclopaedias . |
| 27 | You get people from all sorts of walks of life , who can be in these different ways . |
| 28 | If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were so inclined you could get up to all sorts of things without anyone knowing about it . ’ |
| 30 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |