Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 2 | It is grotesque to portray me as some sort of blue-eyed optimist . |
| 3 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 5 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 6 | ‘ No way am I worth that sort of money , and it 's annoying because I 've started getting begging letters . |
| 7 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 8 | " You think I 'm an opportunist do n't you , latching onto you as some sort of meal-ticket . |
| 9 | Public Liability Insurance can help protect you against this sort of worry and possible loss . |
| 10 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 11 | I 'll push you into some sort of position where I can overtake and then tow you to a garage . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd no right to drag you into this sort of caper . ’ |
| 13 | Have you got your hands sort of tied up behind you in that sort of coat thing ? |
| 14 | Were you in any sort of A R P unit or anything like that during the war years ? |
| 15 | Er are you on any sort of medication at all Suzanne ? |
| 16 | She looked again at the picture : really , Hilda was quite a pretty woman in her way , if your tastes inclined you to that sort of good looks . |
| 17 | And Prozac did the trick for me , erm it wo n't work for everybody , it 's not a happiness pill , it just restores you to some sort of normality . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish someone would ruin me with that sort of money . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm moving , I 'm scrooving , I 'm dooving this is hard , got to take all these notes and just put them into all sort of a summary . |
| 20 | I hope , heaven help me , to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later . |
| 21 | Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information , and placing them into some sort of context . |
| 22 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 23 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 24 | In the main , however , they employ their temporary workers directly and issue them with some sort of employment contract . |
| 25 | But roasting them , I would n't like to get them with any sort of burnt taste . |
| 26 | ‘ What ? ’ , said David , dressed in black satin , looking absolutely outrageous , like a Lithuanian Dracula rock and roller about to get married and me in this sort of Victorian gown . |
| 27 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 28 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 29 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 30 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |