Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [det] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 2 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 3 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 4 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 5 | He thought he was suffering from some sort of glandular disease . |
| 6 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 7 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 8 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |