Example sentences of "it was [art] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the gentleman who took us round who was excellent er what impressed me was the fact that it was no sort of straight patters one gets with guides you know when you go round these places . |
| 2 | It was a sort of Catholic stab against death , I suppose . |
| 3 | It was a sort of burnt orange colour with a large hole cut at the back so that the lean old arse Nigel hated so much could be shown to its full advantage . |
| 4 | ‘ It was not an uninteresting character , ’ said Nicholson , ‘ but it was a sort of aside from the film itself because the part was n't in the original script . |
| 5 | Well , it was a sort of a boat journey , the van belonging to the shipping company that monopolizes the western seaboard . |
| 6 | In fact , it was a sort of petty tyranny . |
| 7 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 8 | Otherwise , it was a sort of limbo , and it was n't until we moved to a council house in Southall in the outer suburbs of London that the shades of the prison-house began to close . |
| 9 | It was a sort of joke . |
| 10 | I suppose it was a sort of novelty lesson for them . |
| 11 | It was a sort of revolutionary version of the Lions Club . |
| 12 | And er the it was a sort of for , I remember erm only a few years ago in Harlow we had a discussion group there was somebody there and I I think I 've still got the piece about that . |
| 13 | It was a sort of confessional . ’ |
| 14 | It was a sort of Christmas present . |
| 15 | But it was a sort of madness . |
| 16 | It was a sort of a , as you grew older mind you , it was i i i it could have been a little bit of a miserable sort of day . |
| 17 | We did that to all the staff , it was a sort of Cinderella story . |
| 18 | It was a sort of truce . |
| 19 | And then that perhaps it was a sort of reminder . |
| 20 | Last night I thought of one , it was a sort of butter-yellow ( farm-butter-yellow ) held rising to a white luminous sky and the sun just rising . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a sort of joke when I was at Oxford . |
| 22 | It was a sort of victory but not for long . |
| 23 | It was a sort of left hook . |
| 24 | Erm it was a mix yeah it was a sort of erm a half and half . |
| 25 | It was a sort of round-up of people 's reactions to the petrol crisis . |
| 26 | But he was angry and I think it was a sort of gesture . ’ |
| 27 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 29 | It was a sort of woollen soft material but very er thin . |
| 30 | So it was a sort of a give and take . |