Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly I sort of own it , ’ he enlightened modestly . |
| 2 | Well it on my doorstep and that makes sense to use it , so I sort of wriggle down there and have to keep me out of er Southampton er Boat Show . |
| 3 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 4 | Bule reservoir to come out at Lamberhurst in the village so I sort of circled it |
| 5 | So I sort of was called to look at it , and I said oh yes , all the people I know who have got those are over seventy . |
| 6 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 7 | I thought I do n't like all the he 's gon na fucking have me , so I sort of got down like that and as he fucking come round the thing must of gone like that , sort of that sort of bearing . |
| 8 | I mean I do it sort of a bit naturally , I mean if you , you know that what , the Delvine Hotel , I mean I sort of went in and I du n no sort of part way in I sort of said can I ask you if , you know , you 've had your other quotes and he sort of said yes we 're gon na sit down tonight and make our minds up |
| 9 | So you sort of do a survey ? |
| 10 | So we sort of bypassed each other . |
| 11 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 12 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 13 | so they sort of had it floor to ceiling . |
| 14 | So a lot of , a lot of them tell like fairy tales , a lot of people tell fairy tales for young , at young children , it 's all aimed at young children when they 're not old enough to understand what 's truth and what is n't they 're not old , they 're not in their own understanding yet when they 're children so they sort of , not in their conscious sense anyway |
| 15 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 16 | But it 's not I mean it is quite theoretical so it sort of represents it wrongly . |
| 17 | Erm , so it sort of originated in our family . |
| 18 | So it sort of comes out sort of ringlets |
| 19 | I 've done stuff like this actually I remember doing exactly them sort of questions . |
| 20 | It was not his sort of place , this friend Mrs Shottery not his kind of person . |
| 21 | Somehow I sort of mentioned do you know what I mean ? |
| 22 | It 's sad but I mean I think miles away you sort of not quite so bad , traumatic . |
| 23 | yes it was a movie picture , yes been showing here , because when she said she was blind , I thought well what 's the good , but she said oh well , he , when he runs it through he sort of explains to , but he was using it all the time was n't he ? |
| 24 | and you erm you know your next big and the mean a signals as to whether or not it sort of the floor 's being offered . |
| 25 | Like she sort of goes erm like you know you do that ? |
| 26 | I know but like you sort of forget do n't you ? |
| 27 | Whatever they felt like they sort of |
| 28 | Gradually it sort of like brings people out of themselves and do you know what I mean , they learn to do things . |
| 29 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 30 | talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like |