Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] sort of " in BNC.
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1 | you know , in the one case you 're , you 're the representative of court the probation erm officer and they know that if they break the probation or you sort of erm do a bad report on them , maybe they 've got a suspended or something and they 'll , so you know there 's a , and , and you somehow have to handle that |
2 | I were n't doing it all although I sort of organized it . |
3 | And then , the next day I went along and he actually caught the five foot one and ki and killed it and he gave us a load of steaks off it that I sort of |
4 | But mummy that I sort of thought Adele would act . |
5 | Well it does n't matter really , it was just that I sort of |
6 | And if you 're wanting to spend more time on Johnson at any stage , this is sort of there 's something that I sort of do n't trust producing some er , you know a play to a load of boxes but erm , la la la , and sheets as well . |
7 | As soon as he found out I knew about cameras and all that , he realised I could make myself useful round the studio , so I sort of moved in . |
8 | were only a month before so I sort of war wound down a bit , so |
9 | In fact we had a letter did n't we from the neighbourhood watch co-ordinator saying that she sort of goes on patrol when she takes the dog a walk |
10 | But erm she was saying there were a group that she sort of went were alongside their group which were the |
11 | You know with the idea that you sort of should look at your action plan and say , |
12 | Wh what erm what ye what year would this be that you sort of s |
13 | He was all limp , so she sort of frowned at him , decided to ignore him , and put her arm through mine . |
14 | Right , so you sort of er find activities that you can actually |
15 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
16 | Okay , so you sort of nine , ten , eleven cos we had fun and games with |
17 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
18 | again so you sort of |
19 | You want some you want some ringleaders who get on well , so you sort of bully them into things , which Donna is ! |
20 | Erm once you sort of crack the code and get into it , things you 've never heard of when they come up you when you know the system you think , Oh well I know what I know what it means by that . |
21 | Can I assume that we sort of are happy with the format that there should be a national curriculum level and there should be a general skills and abilities ? |
22 | It 's only just recently that we sort of starting our de we 've had bits of aggro . |
23 | We have n't actually produced one yet , but it 's something that we sort of erm attempted |
24 | Vern was wandering too , so we sort of got talking . |
25 | Erm so then so we sort of finished off having a chat , he said , oh we 'll see you when we see you . |
26 | And it was n't really until after the First World War when things really sort of er got started and er women sort of carried on and , and they do take jobs and occupations er that they sort of really came into their own . |
27 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
28 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
29 | So I used to buy erm I used buy a lot of er the Meg and Mogs cos I found that they sort of helped him . |
30 | Erm I I think that one of the erm , drawbacks in using animals for any kind of testing is that it sort of precludes in some way using alternatives . |