Example sentences of "it sort [prep] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that .
2 You know which one it , it is , it sort of activated one .
3 I mean does it , does it lie over that way or has it sort of gone back on itself ?
4 Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy .
5 Yellow-like in colour it sort of floated in the air .
6 But eh , you 'd have to have it sort of written out and more or less ready I think to go .
7 And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff .
8 I think in the end , yes , the money was with England erm and in the end , the amount of possession that they actually had , that erm it sort of told the day in the end .
9 But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’
10 Erm it sort of backfired a bit on poor er Ray because he 'd actually written up a bid er for us to do , which was about investors in people to actually h appoint somebody to control that process which would take on board all of the training and
11 Erm , so it sort of originated in our family .
12 And I think it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them , and certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things — people who before would have probably said ‘ Oh it 's a waste of money ’ , and I think we did quite a lot to change that attitude .
13 And I think it , it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a Mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them .
14 it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really .
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