Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , in the one case you 're , you 're the representative of court the probation erm officer and they know that if they break the probation or you sort of erm do a bad report on them , maybe they 've got a suspended or something and they 'll , so you know there 's a , and , and you somehow have to handle that |
| 2 | We always keep the home fires burning and them sort of things like , you know . |
| 3 | But erm , what I did mean to bring in was th was the that our parents and er our er older erm inhabitants who appreciated the cigarettes and them sort of things . |
| 4 | There 's that one of you kneeling down and me sort of |
| 5 | I do n't want to cry , and I sort of hold myself in when we walk back , but I do n't half feel sad . |
| 6 | Sometimes I get a little dizzy and that and I sort of feel real tall — you know , like a giant . |
| 7 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 8 | I chopped up the chicken itself and I put it and what I could rescue of the rice and a bit more rice which was in the cupboard into a frying pan with a stock cube and some water and I sort of poached it all together . ’ |
| 9 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 10 | She really was , and I sort of thought , Oh , I ca n't go , I ca n't face up to going there . |
| 11 | There was something lying on the ground in front of me and I tried to jump over it , but my feet would n't leave the ground and I sort of waded through it . |
| 12 | And I sort of Oof . |
| 13 | I had a lot of help from people and erm well I 'm fairly adaptable and I sort of took over this job of Chief Administrator 's Assistant . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt a bit lost in the world and had no brothers or sisters , ’ he recalled , ‘ so my gran and I sort of adopted each other . |
| 15 | And I sort of made him talk . |
| 16 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 17 | I started to feel sick , was vomiting , I had very bad diarrhoea and I sort of stayed in bed for like a couple of days , very very poorly . |
| 18 | anyway , and I sort of said to the waitress , why what was it ? |
| 19 | So I said well I do n't , I do n't look at her and I sort of see |
| 20 | window and I sort of pinged the cat 's tray , you know , if I shut the door and walked back in and hid the paint on the side , and on a couple of occasions he was painting that window and suddenly this cat appeared outside |
| 21 | could eat him , I went down me mate 's Saturday , cos I come home and I sort of was coming towards the end of the week and just did a farewell dinner for dad on the Sunday and we all went to mum 's |
| 22 | So I explained to them , I said well that 's cos you changed over and I sort of never put it across through oh she said well do n't worry I 've done it now , she said you have n't got anything to worry about now , I said well it did bother me a bit to think that I did n't think you had my payment ! |
| 23 | er and I sort of , I thought well you know , I mean , I sort of went of that erm and I , I showed him a window , showed him a corner section erm , I did n't ask , I said I ca n't remember if your wife sort of erm , if your sister said it was the gold or the white handles |
| 24 | I mean I did that , I mean it , it , er , er , at Exmouth when they all measured er , they had an extra window like and I sort of you know , do you want , you know |
| 25 | Yeah and you er I ov I overslept , well I woke up at five and normally I think if I go to sleep now and I sort of get myself awake but today I must of turned over |
| 26 | Well er ha you know I found myself after Budgie managing a singer called Leo and that led to a lot of interesting business and getting involved an , and I sort of forgot Adam Faith for ten years and just got diverted really . |
| 27 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 28 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 29 | And I sort of said , Well you know I ca n't really say obviously cos I 'm not Rachel . |
| 30 | and I sort of like walked out the door and went yeah I 've thought about it . |