Example sentences of "sort of [adj] thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gold can be made into all sorts of other things besides guineas . |
| 2 | So whenever you 've got Xs and Ys and all sorts of strange things in there think just , it 's only a number . |
| 3 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
| 4 | I shall resist the temptation to say all sorts of nice things about you at this point , because there would be other opportunities obviously . |
| 5 | Students at Oxford University about to be covered in all sorts of disgusting things after their last exam . |
| 6 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 7 | And I suppose if you do n't have a fridge you do n't have to go out and buy all sorts of junky things like eggs and mayonnaise and ice-cream to fill it up with . |
| 8 | and all sorts of wonderful things like that . |
| 9 | And erm we had to learn erm how to do heart tracings , ECGs , on each other and er all sorts of exciting things like that . |
| 10 | I could feel myself starting to slide off into sleep ; I began to imagine and see all sorts of weird things behind my eyes : maze-shapes and spreading areas of unknown colours , then fantastic buildings and spaceships and weapons and landscapes . |
| 11 | Another will focus on prayer and yet keep on saying all sorts of damaging things about other people . |
| 12 | You could put all sorts of little things in there . |
| 13 | But they , they sailed sort of first thing in the morning and did n't come back till last thing at |
| 14 | Mm , oh , sort of international things at the |
| 15 | erm I do n't know if anybody 's noticed , but before half past 8 in the morning and after half past 5 you get screaming night bells around the press , they 're not the blue phones , they 're the emergency phones , it 's the little square sort of socket-like thing above most of the corridors , and that screaming away tells you that there 's an outside caller ringing 56767 . |
| 16 | you know it 's almost as if it 's like er you know a sort of negative thing to , to , to find out about somebody erm so erm yeah I mean I think I , so I think you 'll , I think you 'll , you 'll of necessity have to try and do something which captures this , this sort of informal talk because as soon as people commit themselves to writing they 're gon na be erm they 're gon na be |
| 17 | Three fairly sort of general things on press release . |
| 18 | There was a little exhibition called The Nude and basically they 've got a nice little Picture Gallery there with sort of various things in , but they also had some lovely anatomy books beside it and so on , some amazing engravings , you know , entire body structures , skeletal man , muscular man , . |
| 19 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 20 | I think if you can now , it may be that you could find a sort of semi-structured thing like the Richmond Fellowship . |
| 21 | And you might find out some sort of interesting things about that . |
| 22 | And also , of course , you 've got the sort of social thing between you . |