Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 2 | No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted . |
| 3 | I was just sort of helping . |
| 4 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 5 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was funny cos I could hear them talking and I was really sort of like |
| 8 | and you , , I used to eat so slow they 'd all all sort of finish and I was still sort of tuck |
| 9 | And I said , yeah , but I was very sort of non-committal |
| 10 | You are , you , you were very sort of standard-wise |
| 11 | and then when she got it she was just sort of oh I 'm buying a house |
| 12 | Yeah , she was just sort of coming down the stairs yeah it 's alright , you know , had a word with her |
| 13 | Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ? |
| 14 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 15 | They were just sort of as I said , they used this celluloid . |
| 16 | I do n't think we 've got anything particularly unusual about our hubcaps or well if they were really sort of amazing hubcaps then |
| 17 | I mean I du n no whether it 's because they do n't want to lose votes or you know I mean they they were there sort of pontificating about we should all come little children and let's talk . |
| 18 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 19 | And there used to be sort of a mush made from haricot beans too that people said were baked beans and they were n't it was just sort of white mushy erm white haricot beans with a sort of red colouring poured over the top . |
| 20 | because , you come back here and all the Scottish women were vast and they lost their figure 's and it was just sort of almost taken for granted that you have a baby and you loose your figure , but you do n't mind because you 've got the children . |
| 21 | It was just sort of ‘ Shall we take him down then ? ’ and Bob 's your unc . ’ |
| 22 | And it it was quite strange , it was just sort of a row of houses |
| 23 | And there 's nothing wrong with her it was just sort of it 's just nerves is n't it ? |
| 24 | Erm greetings and appropriate sociability although it flowed a lot of it was actually sort of statements and or closed questions . |
| 25 | It was this sort of in-between authority that he could not tolerate as he felt that it would only increase the existing element of confusion . |
| 26 | And it was always sort of open house and the nurses used to come in when they were off duty a lot . |
| 27 | it was always sort of for social thing and pe people could n't pay well that was alright , they did n't pay as you say , we 've done our whack really |
| 28 | Oh come on you can be on my side cos it was obvious , like , he was just sort of sat there . |
| 29 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 30 | He was really sort of ignorant about things like that . |