Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | god of war of Norway or somewhere or something like that , or it is sort of thunder |
| 2 | You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer . |
| 3 | And anyway , he and I are sort of mates . |
| 4 | Sometimes I 'm working away up here in my studio — the name 's a bit too grand for the room , which is only 12 by 12 , but even so — and there 's music on the radio and I 'm sort of on automatic pilot . |
| 5 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 6 | erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City |
| 7 | And I 'm sort of thinking , oh my God , modern woman ! |
| 8 | and I 'm sort of thinking , why Thursday ? |
| 9 | and they 're going in my neck but I do n't wan na turn over cos she 'll fall off the bed and I 'm sort of going just on me and she 's really funny . |
| 10 | Or if my mother comes up , and I 'm sort of just getting up , she says , oh do you want me to bring stuff up , or ideally , I usually say or I 'll come downstairs and get breakfast . |
| 11 | Half my year 's gon na be gone , and I 'm sort of , going for the third year , and it 's really heavy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | and I was sort of concentrating so I just |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Well , he was in this pen and I was sort of behind him |
| 21 | hang on hang on now if you 're talking to a mathematician and you 're sort of saying cos squared is well erm you know if I integrate that ah I 'm going to get cos so if erm well I 'll just change that there and I 'll fiddle |
| 22 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 23 | Well you laughed and you were sort of and I just sort of told her and said shut up , shut up and stop being so bitchy . |
| 24 | Oh yeah eighty and she 's sort of sixty three , no that 's a bit early is n't it ? |
| 25 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 26 | And she was sort of telling Sue to do this , and Sue said this is n't is it ? |
| 27 | I felt so ashamed because I did n't recognise her and she was sort of talking away to me as though , you know , and I thought oh very friendly person , you know ? |
| 28 | We 're just saying oh well we 'll see how it goes and we 're sort of putting it down whereas I suppose we should hit them straight away . |
| 29 | And we 're sort of saying , we have n't actually got round to formalizing it yet . |
| 30 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |