Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] sort " in BNC.
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| 31 | Where the road is , you sh- , you should sort of come out like that and the main road sort of goes round like that and you need to sort of go like that . |
| 32 | yeah like , not being nasty but Hannah to look at her you think you 'd think , oh you know she might sort of bit bit pongy ! |
| 33 | Yeah but she might sort of like expose herself but is she vulgar ? |
| 34 | But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago . |
| 35 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 36 | Before we before my mam had the house in Road that was just what you might sort of still call it . |
| 37 | In effect you , you , you , you , you 've got the church , you 've got erm you , you might sort of move from collaborators with the Japanese to collaborators with the Kuomintang , I E the counter-revolutionaries . |
| 38 | You might sort of like bark . |
| 39 | she probably would n't become a manager , because usually you think you can change and develop but I think she 'll be then be able to become a manager and she 'll sort of learn , but she 'd have to actually change her personality for it . |
| 40 | Actually granny 's got this thing about saving money in every possible way so you ring up and say hello and then she 'll sort of , right now tha lovely for calling , thank you so much for calling , now bye you know and you have n't even said anything , you feel really |
| 41 | Yes well my grandmother I think she lived nearby and she 'd sort of pop in . |
| 42 | He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father . |
| 43 | Because you 'd sort of , they , they 'd go up and then if , if you went any farther you 'd go on to the doctors ' lectures you see . |
| 44 | Er and often you 'd go into a quite a poor home and you 'd , you 'd sort of er , th there was n't the money about you see in , in those days . |
| 45 | Erm so I mean I think , you know , it might be useful , well , in some ways it would be very useful for you to have erm two sort of six month stints in rather different environments so that then you 'd sort of keep your options open a bit . |
| 46 | Well I du n no whether we whether you 'd sort of when you 're so close really . |
| 47 | And you get I mean it might be an idea if you could sort of handle this formula but it 's not important really . |
| 48 | So maybe you could sort of go back and think which one of these would possibly give me calcium carbonate , well that Good chance it might you know have a guess , that this one |
| 49 | but you , you could sort of |
| 50 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 51 | What 's point three , well it 's about the cube root of three , or you could sort of try cube root of three |
| 52 | Play in pairs , it 's different but when you 're just playing singles , you can say or maybe you could sort of friends that go , you 'd probably say something like , are you sure ? |
| 53 | Then you could sort of do something with the |
| 54 | Like you say you could sort of travel into London in that hour could n't you ? |
| 55 | I find it 's very difficult in these ovens to , you know a normal oven you could sort of put things to the bottom that you 've already done . |
| 56 | Yeah , if you could sort of , if you could put , put erm , if you could date them wherever they were so I can just remember , alright , it 'll help me . |
| 57 | you could sort of wear it while you 're playing |
| 58 | and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer |
| 59 | ‘ I want you to know we did n't use any of this nonsense ’ , Koch protested between the titters ; ‘ … you would sort of start down that road and get so self-conscious you could n't do it . ’ |
| 60 | But you 'd perhaps go three or four times before the baby was born and er just see everything was alright and you 'd know which way the baby was lying a and which way it was going to er you know come and if you thought there was going to be any problems well you know then you , you would sort of let the doctor know and , and he 'd decide then . |