Example sentences of "[unc] [pers pn] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I li I sort of , yeah sort of remember them . |
| 2 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 3 | but I only went round Dor Dorman Longs because the man who 's in charge of the labourers who moved all the machinery about er I sort of went with him see I did n't |
| 4 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 5 | I felt bad because the bloke was with him and er she sort of glaring at him , and I said but Matt had |
| 6 | And er you sort of pull the shoe over the sole and er then hit , my father would sort of shape a piece of leather around the sole of the shoe and then er he would sort of tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of cours tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of course would bend them over inside your shoe , just like a normal cobbler repairs shoe . |
| 7 | But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up . |
| 8 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 9 | Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production . |
| 10 | He was saying if you had a three tier extending ladder then the they sort of , their more rigid . |
| 11 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 12 | And er he sort of admitted that he lives absolutely on the fringe of the no go area . |
| 13 | And er y you sort of make your list of who has to go and where they 've to come from , take it into the office , and they organize it . |
| 14 | So you know i that 's the way s you sort of got to know er er people 's circumstances I think . |
| 15 | Yes , y yes , you , you were , you 'd sort of passed all your exams so yo th they sort of had to make it a little bit easier . |
| 16 | So I 'm a bit worried ab cos pianos can you know i th they sort of , it 's the it 's the constant beat of the piano . |
| 17 | Erm you sort of ah if you were in charge of infu infants you you played with their genitals . |
| 18 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 19 | Absolutely , you see the sad thing is that Simon has a seven point five five average erm we sort of balance that out , you know , erm Simon to go and bring in a six point National League boy — it 's not a clever situation at all in my book , but then the rules are the rules and we have to go along with it . |
| 20 | and , erm they sort of work and most of it , some of them |
| 21 | This one erm he sort of tried hard and put a lot in , thinks he should get full marks but he 's not going to get very much because he 's missed this , he 's not answering that properly |
| 22 | Erm it sort of backfired a bit on poor er Ray because he 'd actually written up a bid er for us to do , which was about investors in people to actually h appoint somebody to control that process which would take on board all of the training and |
| 23 | because once it 's , it happens erm it sort of , it becomes law does n't it really ? |
| 24 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 25 | I think in the end , yes , the money was with England erm and in the end , the amount of possession that they actually had , that erm it sort of told the day in the end . |
| 26 | Er but er y they sort of got their money back that way . |
| 27 | it wo n't hurt it I mean cos this is sort of like that anyway you know i it sort of suppose it does , I 'll have to see . |
| 28 | I 've go I 've got some coal in the coal shed and it , you know , i it sort of lasts me . |
| 29 | Yo you sort of er if you ran into someone you know , you do something silly it 's it 's it 's it 's automatic to say oh I 'm sorry we will you know how much |