Example sentences of "'m [noun sg] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'm sort of looking realistically that after four years that the education system changes |
| 2 | I mean I 'm finding that you know through it because I 'm sort of straining all the time I 'm getting terrible headaches and all of the |
| 3 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 4 | erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City |
| 5 | I sent off for mine last week — I 'm sort of hoping that they wo n't have posted them yet so it may be worth ringing up to try and cancel . |
| 6 | I 'm sort of kneeling there , so I put my hand on Marie 's back to make her feel better , but she rolls away from me . |
| 7 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 8 | And I 'm sort of thinking , oh my God , modern woman ! |
| 9 | and I 'm sort of thinking , why Thursday ? |
| 10 | I 'm sort of jumping around a bit because there was so much going on . |
| 11 | I realize I 'm sort of giving a very , very negative impression , and I do n't want to give the suggestion either that being unemployed has to be always bad , that all unemployed people are having a totally horrible time all of the time and are feeling very depressed all of the time — that 's not the case — but I 'm afraid that is more like the average erm situation , the typical situation , than otherwise . |
| 12 | It 's my son , I 'm sort of playing it by ear , I 'm not quite sure what I 'm doing oh dear me not quite sure at all |
| 13 | I mean now I 'm sort of psychoanalyzing the authority about the school closing . |
| 14 | And nine times out of , alright say I 've got another four choices but nine times out of ten I 'll go and I will have put those four on , in the mood that I 'm sort of feeling then I 'll fucking , I want to listen to something completely different . |
| 15 | and , and that has been integrated across a county into the establishment which is why I 'm sort of saying |
| 16 | Well erm , children , people with children who do n't know how to behave , or , or at least use your house as a sort of running ground , erm , not living in London , er , er , I have lots of guests that come from London , sort of using it as , as much as one would exercise dogs , and , and let their children r run , like round the house , and then er , I 'm sort of saying things like , oh you 're , you 're very , very sensible not to have decorated until after your son 's older . |
| 17 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 18 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 19 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 20 | Seeing as I 'm sort of got half into that one really . |
| 21 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 22 | So that that 's why I 'm sort of representing Mother earth . |
| 23 | and they 're going in my neck but I do n't wan na turn over cos she 'll fall off the bed and I 'm sort of going just on me and she 's really funny . |