Example sentences of "sort of [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 'm not sure what time yet but erm it 's more likely to be sort of just before lunch or just sort of or maybe just after lunch or round four o'clock I try to keep the younger ones earlier so they 're not you know it 's not |
| 2 | Just in brackets , sort of just in pencil or Euro or something . |
| 3 | And the building society bloke 's told me today they 've got a hundred and fifty accounts in the office that are sort of heavily in arrears |
| 4 | How did you work that was it er sort of round like Egilsay or did you |
| 5 | erm er it might be sort of rather like archaeology you know er |
| 6 | So it 's very much body language that is actually directive , sort of right up people 's noses quite often very , very close to people yeah ? |
| 7 | and the thing what we found out there was sort of up to date English usage . |
| 8 | He 'd got sort of hard in consequence . |
| 9 | He 'd knock you about and swear at you and everything , but , you know , he makes you feel sort of more at home . ’ |
| 10 | sort of like for ages |
| 11 | Well I mean the sort of like in Reading will probably only call once every blue moon Yeah but you 've got a situation where there 's and and sort of and th she 's not gon na tell is she ? th what 's going on |
| 12 | And er the er we used to have a piece of wood , a small piece of wood that was shaped er like a sort of almost like torpedo at both ends . |
| 13 | and the Sunday morning sort of all round Paris and all that . |
| 14 | Most people around you have no hair either so you are sort of out of place if you do . |
| 15 | I think he was a bit nervous really he thought , Oh my gosh you know that these are one of the big pickets that happened erm what are the women going to plan next you know and he felt you know Tom 's you know felt a bit sort of out of control of it really I think he was very impressed with er . |