Example sentences of "kind of [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the rest of the concert and the penny began to drop erm He said something about the tube station not being the most romantic place to meet and I kind of brushed it off by saying well at least we wo n't get wet there or something . |
| 2 | When an organisation decides the kind of training it needs , CEPALC tutors work alongside trainees at their workplace or location of their choice . |
| 3 | If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture . |
| 4 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 5 | That is the kind of exploit he might well claim after a drink or two , expecting his audience first to gasp , then to roar with laughter . |
| 6 | It kind of keeps them . |
| 7 | ( Remember that the kind of cooking you do is very much to the point , for if you only cook simple meals you will need far less preparation area than a more ambitious cook — though here again your aspirations may change with experience . ) |
| 8 | The English advertising agencies started getting into a very interesting style about three years ago and then they kind of blew it away , they forgot which started letter-spacing upper and lower case . |
| 9 | It 's the kind of thinking you want to completely dominate your activities when you 're writing exam answers , okay ? |
| 10 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 11 | I remember the the spanish flu , this was the kind of doctoring we get if you do n't mind this little These little incidents ? |
| 12 | ‘ But actually , being in that situation really helped to develop my ear , because a guy would come for a lesson and ask me to show him a lick from some song or other , which kind of put me on the spot ! |
| 13 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 14 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 15 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 16 | People see Madonna almost like a corporation , as you say , but I think I 'm just kind of winging it . |
| 17 | I went erm excuse me can you clean something please , like this yeah and she kind of went you little shit , I 'm gon na get my husband to come and break your legs |
| 18 | Andre Agassi ( above ) , equally well known for his sense of decorum , said : ‘ To be honest , it kind of irritated me a little bit . |
| 19 | Maybe if you told me , I could kind of suss her out . |
| 20 | So that was the last And I do n't think if he went back after that I think it had kind of frightened him , least so my father used to tell the story . |
| 21 | She kind of wore it with everything she could think of I think that would go . |
| 22 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 23 | Kind of make you hoot with laughter half the time , erm , and the contrast with that is the point , which I do n't know whether any of you has looked at , of course , called Gandhi 's Truth . |
| 24 | The barman fixed me with the kind of stare you could roast weenies on . |
| 25 | Could you just lift me up above your shoulder and kind of swivel me round a bit ? ’ |
| 26 | Now , with that kind of support you [ i.e. the mining companies ] ca n't operate . |
| 27 | Guess I kind of fouled it up . ’ |
| 28 | You kind of recognize it , although no name comes to you . |
| 29 | I 'll be able to learn from it , but it 's not the kind of draw I wanted . ’ |
| 30 | On the rare occasion that it comes up she kind of laughs it off and says well it was n't really a marriage . |