Example sentences of "he be [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew ca n't , he 's just sort of passed that , that on . |
| 2 | and he 's just sort of pottering around , wind you know , things winding down , and suddenly the gardener rushes in from the garden , starts trying to kill him , and he shoots , and he |
| 3 | That 's right , yeah , cos I mean he 's , he 's certainly sort of , even though he 's been sort of prisoner , I mean , he 's seen what 's going on and , and he 's had what five years of it ? |
| 4 | sh , he 's really sort of like , dead brainy and goes to the child-minder and goes to school and whatever ! |
| 5 | she says he 's really sort of quiet and |
| 6 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 7 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 8 | He , he looks a very persuasive kind of character does n't he erm I mean he 's , he 's quite sort of erm well a nice person well he |
| 9 | He 's still sort of her back so |
| 10 | Oh come on you can be on my side cos it was obvious , like , he was just sort of sat there . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | He was really sort of ignorant about things like that . |
| 13 | Er he was a delicate baby and I was always the sturdy one and I was always expected to give in to him and sort of coddle him an an he , he , he was always sort of put first . |
| 14 | and he was still sort of erm , just . |