Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 2 | It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four . |
| 3 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 4 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 5 | see what happened is , I came over and he says , you know I 've told this lady that you saw the man standing beside her and she went she sort of , she described him , apparently he was very tall which |
| 6 | Especially when I first saw him sort of , crawling on his tummy and not wanting any food and I thought , ah ! |
| 7 | yes , that 's the money supply and measures , the measures of money supply I 'm sure you 'll be okay you should beat what I got anyway , cos I saw it sort of cold I could see you were put into shits of boredom , they go totally over the top most of the time my parents |
| 8 | erm I 'd we we have a number of suggestions er a gentleman over there about the er body building was that reported back to you for a start and did you discuss this ? erm you know I I really thought it sort of modern management techniques if there applied here like team working net working it 's it this way you could actually begin to perform as the committee at the moment your the shadowy figures in the background . |
| 9 | I only had a trim , but the blow dry made it sort of Do you remember when I got that , my hair cut really short ? |
| 10 | Did you sort of sing any songs or anything when you were skipping ? |
| 11 | did you sort of play table tennis with them , or what did you do ? |
| 12 | whereas you look back at the end of the day and if you have n't done what you did you sort of feel like a bit down ah and you wish you had |
| 13 | If I gave you sort of X to the seventeen or something , well you could put two values in . |
| 14 | I 've no idea , I mean , did they sort of send someone like you |
| 15 | how did they sort of cope with their relationships or anything like that ? |
| 16 | In certain cases the warlords would use this but how often , we 've already talked , how often did your landlord , they , they used er sort of agencies to collect , only but how often did they sort of er did they the militia on them ? |
| 17 | Mm I think I but Sarah did it at work , she did it sort of plaited it from here round |
| 18 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 19 | Well I said I sort of trundle down the stairs and have me breakfast |
| 20 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 21 | I shoved the lot inside the still warm rabbit and left it sort of sitting , squatting looking towards the holes in the bank . |
| 22 | Well I mean if you had it sort of darker , would n't it stain darker slightly ? |
| 23 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |