Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] sort " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 32 | Cos people , I mean now I mean you ca n't sort of even think about that till mid January or later . |
| 33 | You ca n't sort of like you wan na put shelves up and do things to the house , that 's what keeps her going , wan na put the rent up it 's got a lot of disadvantages . |
| 34 | But you ca n't sort of turn round to Hannah and say Hannah , you 've got B O ! |
| 35 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 36 | I felt a bit you know , er you ca n't sort of , do you see what I mean ? |
| 37 | Which is really quite right but then , I mean , you ca n't sort of just love needs to be sort of spread out a bit does n't it ? |
| 38 | You would n't sort of erm , if you think of Fay er , |
| 39 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 40 | Oh yeah , but I mean you can soon sort of make it so that it 's er |
| 41 | So you can just sort of take them out and put them on your desk , all the bone erm all the pottery . |
| 42 | Oh look it 's one of these that 's nice because you can just sort of nothing can come in behind you and that sort of thing . |
| 43 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 44 | And you can still sort of ma make it elevated up this really nice and |
| 45 | Treat yourself Angie , cos you can always sort of catch up like that . |
| 46 | And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline . |
| 47 | Erm , what I 'll also do , we 'll only sort of talk for about twenty five minutes , about the essay , and then we 'll look at sh writing short answers er , for the exam , |
| 48 | Could we just go on to twenty one and we might just sort of stop this part of the lesson there . |
| 49 | I think the officers really are to be congratulated , and erm , one ca n't sort of guess what could have happened if it had n't been so professional , but I suspect the fact that we won , what we 've won , is a result of the professionalism of our and I really would like to congratulate |
| 50 | So that means until we 've heard from , one of them , we ca n't sort of ascertain finally the , the , the programme for the next few weeks . |
| 51 | so , you , if you , we can even sort of go through your figures and hopefully make the price that we , you know , we show better or |
| 52 | Yeah okay so we can just sort of scrub that out or something . |
| 53 | Erm if we can just sort of work out in our own minds what , I , I do n't want addresses or anything like that , so do n't say oh I 'll break into number six , or anything like that but just anywhere in the area of Farnsfield imagine houses yourself , is to what sort of type of house we break into . |
| 54 | you know was that they 'd got results which they could n't sort of like apply |
| 55 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 56 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |
| 57 | I say they would n't sort of spend like he did . |
| 58 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 59 | So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know . |
| 60 | For instance , if you were given , say , poetry , and you could n't get on with it , he would n't sort of force you into it , he 'd sort of talk it over and find out why you did n't like it , could n't get on with it , and then he 'd put you on to something else you did like … |