Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun] as i " in BNC.

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1 I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me .
2 same sort of height as me , and surely .
3 He said I 'd be a sort of ape not to get a sort of scholarship as I sort of could if I sort of used my noggin !
4 If you read the correspondence columns of the papers , you will find a remarkable range of people with diplomatic and military experience taking the same sort of view as I do .
5 Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ?
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