Example sentences of "[det] sort [prep] thing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This sort of thing just should not end up in court . |
| 2 | ‘ It is important to tell people that there is a cost in administering this sort of thing well . |
| 3 | ‘ It is important to tell people that there is a cost in administering this sort of thing well . |
| 4 | I 'm far too busy to mess about with this sort of thing today . |
| 5 | How you persuade people to buy this sort of thing rather than that sort of thing . ’ |
| 6 | And I think we 've got to do a lot more to put this sort of thing right . |
| 7 | You hear so much about this sort of thing nowadays . |
| 8 | In the best teams , this sort of thing rarely happens , but if it does , a collective effort is made to put it right . |
| 9 | ‘ This sort of thing only happens in the movies , not during filming . ’ |
| 10 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 11 | You had to use this sort of thing like find it up in a mess has n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to see that this sort of thing never happens again , ’ I said . |
| 13 | The footings need to be raised so they can guarantee this sort of thing never happens again , ’ said the father of four . |
| 14 | We need to know who was to blame , we need a full open enquiry into this incident , and we must make sure that this sort of thing never happens again . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We are seeing this sort of thing more and more often . ’ |
| 16 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |
| 17 | We take this sort of thing very seriously indeed . ’ |
| 18 | This sort of thing still occurs . |
| 19 | authority will have the clout to pull this sort of thing together but again , we are debating regional government , and we are n't debating unitary authorities . |
| 20 | I said , ‘ You have n't encountered this sort of thing personally , have you , Shanti ? ’ |
| 21 | He had done this sort of thing before . |
| 22 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 23 | Tony and Matt are both experienced cavers , they have the right equipment , have had a guide to the mines produced by the Northern Association of Caving Clubs , and , more importantly , Matt at least has done this sort of thing before , or as he said , If I remember rightly … " |
| 24 | Mind you , she 's done this sort of thing before . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've heard about this sort of thing before , ’ he said , as if realizing what he 'd stumbled on , or at least what he thought he 'd stumbled on . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've done this sort of thing before , have n't you ? ’ he said softly . |
| 27 | ‘ You ever done this sort of thing before ? ’ |
| 28 | The captain , who had done this sort of thing before , did not discuss it and discouraged any of his officers and men from doing so . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've done this sort of thing before ? ’ |
| 30 | He 's done this sort of thing before . ’ |