Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [det] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 2 | He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — " |
| 3 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 6 | Erm and basically er the , the reason for doing it that way is that erm , I do n't want to set up a situation where erm I 'm some sort of expert and I er this is not a matching process , okay ? |
| 7 | ‘ You think I 'm some sort of kosher goody-goody , do n't you , dybbuk ? ’ she says into her fist . |
| 8 | I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’ |
| 9 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 10 | It is a thing that is only important if you are some sort of lonely fan who loves The Wedding Present and thinks that David is a lovely , sincere person . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 12 | The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this . |
| 13 | The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this . |
| 14 | Well , if you 're that sort of person , I would worry about them you see . |
| 15 | I think handouts ma you you 're all sort of absolutely your eyes lit up when the little handouts came round . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 17 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 18 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 19 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 20 | She 's same sort of weight as you ? |
| 21 | She was that sort of girl . |
| 22 | Why had he thought it necessary , she would n't have minded , surely he did n't think she was that sort of person . |
| 23 | She was that sort of person . |
| 24 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 25 | Franca , wondering who she was , had decided that she was some sort of secretary or servant of Marcus , like the conjuror 's assistant . |
| 26 | She spoke a lot , and they turned and congratulated each other on her French , as though she was some sort of barrel-organ she thought , being not only sex-starved but starved also of admiration . |
| 27 | She was some sort of idealist . ’ |
| 28 | Even Nelson 's invitation was being misconstrued as more evidence that she was some sort of siren who enjoyed luring men with her seductive powers . |
| 29 | But like just for you to know that , I mean , at the moment , got a slight shortage of staff and , us little Express girlies are like , we 're all sort of desperate to please them well , and because we need to , if a customer rings we 're always there for them and the problem is , I 've got like two phones on my desk at the moment , so , I could guarantee the minute I put my phone down , if anybody else is on the phone ha , bloody phone 's still ringing , I have got to answer it . |
| 30 | So we 're all sort of in the same , very |