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 .
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