Example sentences of "some sort of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only idea she had was of discovering some sort of shelter for the night , for she must catch the stage to her destination early in the morning . |
| 2 | Melissa asked , but before anyone could give a coherent answer Monsieur Gauthier managed to impose some sort of order on the chaos and shooed his family , like so many cackling hens , towards the private quarters at the rear of the hotel . |
| 3 | Considering the importance of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , we must expect that there will be some sort of link between the body clock and the eyes . |
| 4 | At its extreme among the small towns , this blurring of the rural-urban boundary extends over the whole settlement , as at Dragonby , and perhaps suggests some sort of link with the level of agricultural pre-occupation or functional specialization . |
| 5 | Clearly , he has some sort of affinity with the part of King Henry , but it does n't seem an actorly affinity . |
| 6 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 7 | ‘ He had to go — there 's some sort of emergency at the Wharf , I think . |
| 8 | In language use ( as opposed to the drills of formal language practice ) we almost always have some sort of knowledge about the senders or receivers of the discourse . |
| 9 | Then we were confined to our rooms as the Corporals organised some sort of excuse for the Sergeants and Sergeant-Major . |
| 10 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 11 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 12 | Mildred lapsed into silence and fixed her eyes on Maud in the hope that she might be able to send some sort of message through the air — like a radio wave — to her friend . |
| 13 | There 's usually some sort of scene in the morning . |
| 14 | But he would never see it because his heart was more concerned with the new love of his life and some sort of retribution for the past . |
| 15 | On a point of library housekeeping , the simple stratagem of date stamping items left upon tables is a useful way of keeping some sort of check on the use of reference books . |
| 16 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 17 | Detach say two hundred , and use these to make a gesture at Roxburgh , some sort of sally towards the castle , hiding the remainder away , if necessary in groups . |
| 18 | Also , if you have a cat and you want to let it out , you could at least provided some sort of warning for the prey , so that the prey has a better chance of escaping ; such as a bell around the neck for example . |
| 19 | My choice of industry might seem surprising , in view of my wish to make some sort of contribution to the world 's well-being . |
| 20 | Until Khrushchev astonished our Georgian apparatchik at the 20th Party Congress , everyone in the West supposed that as some sort of Gauleiter of the Ukraine , he would be even worse than Uncle Joe . |
| 21 | ‘ I have also tried to establish some sort of memorial within the nature park where Julie and Elizabeth were murdered but South African officials at the embassy do n't seem particularly interested . ’ |
| 22 | Realistically , it has to be recognised that without some sort of consensus between the two largest players , the government and the ANC , about key points , the talks would have been doomed anyway . |
| 23 | I think that we must whe when we 're , we we must come to some sort of consensus in the staff as to what the levels mean in inverted commas . |
| 24 | You know , all this is I mean we 've got a month actually which is a good thing but erm surely you must have some sort of agreements with the union and your and |
| 25 | If only there remained some sort of plan of the former layout ; but it could hardly have been anticipated when the conversion was begun that a modern miller would be the buyer , who proposed to grind not corn but electricity . |
| 26 | What Thorfinn did was earn a breathing-space , and the right to lodge some sort of defence in the area . |
| 27 | There was some sort of machine at the other end of the table , covered with little dials and lights . |
| 28 | At a time when the feature industry was undergoing a re-examination and the documentary movement was split between filmmakers who felt that they should reach out to a cinema audience , and those like Grierson himself who preferred to exhibit films outside the theatre ( e.g. town halls , schools , etc. ) , the possibility was open for some sort of rapprochement between the documentary and the fiction film . |
| 29 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 30 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |