Example sentences of "[pers pn] was sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 2 | Music was a sideline and I was sort of the loner of the family , sitting for hours in my brother 's room listening to records . |
| 3 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 4 | I was sort of trying to figure out a way to weasel out of re-releasing it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 6 | And I was sort of juggling , I did n't realize how much I was doing until one day shortly after mother 's death , a lady stopped me and she said has something happened to your mother ? |
| 7 | I was sort of torn between my mum and Keith then . |
| 8 | Well I was sort of erm |
| 9 | Just as I was sort of starting work . |
| 10 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 11 | It 's really , I mean next year I was sort of quite co I 'm quite committed to not having a year off so much as just exploring things and that 's what |
| 12 | So her husband brought the case in the Guild room on the Tuesday night and erm I was sort of throw 'd in at the deep end because they were mostly older women and they all said , oh well you 're secretary erm yo I said yes , but I do n't know the Co-op dual structure . |
| 13 | A bit difficult to explain — I was sort of keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 14 | I was sort of like more light-hearted sort of er like er got plenty of money , but it 's crappy pay . |
| 15 | I was sort of hoping any other people who were interested in standing for re-election might have came along to this Committee to show their |
| 16 | I was sort of telling you that bit . |
| 17 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 18 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 19 | and I was sort of concentrating so I just |
| 20 | And he , and I remember ah , er er , I mean I was only , well I was sort of and he had his feet up on the table , he was smoking a cigarette and he , and he had a laid back attitude . |
| 21 | cos I was sort of lying in bed sort of late |
| 22 | Erm but this is the area up here Anne , that I was sort of thinking that we could if we can , some kind of trellis or something around this raised area here you could actually open this bit as the , as a pub on a |
| 23 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 24 | He had a cigarette in his hand and flicking ash up the carpet and I was looking at him , you know , and I was sort of going , and Jane was sat in here and she said , put that cigarette out ! |
| 25 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 26 | so I left it and I was sort of like , falling asleep so I thought oh right , and so I turned off my music , went to sleep , then woke up again and |
| 27 | I was sort of driving along , what ? |
| 28 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 29 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 30 | Well , he was in this pen and I was sort of behind him |