Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting , punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large . |
| 2 | Or it could mean cutting Russian exports , which would leave the Cubans short of all sorts of things they need . |
| 3 | I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want . |
| 4 | At least that 's why it 's so important to know the sorts of things they are going to say before you can specify for that . |
| 5 | We seem to be gathering all sorts of things we do n't need . |
| 6 | This is a very appealing theory but scarcely seems to be borne out by the facts ; after all , we dream about all sorts of things which in no way do we wish to experience in real life . |
| 7 | all sorts of things which are available which if I just brushed up on so at least if I went to an interview I 'd be able to talk about |
| 8 | The opposition , predictably , accused the Government of all sorts of things which spelt death to the arts , giving Arts Minister , Tim Renton a hard time . |
| 9 | These projects are the sorts of things which Friends of other Gardens , particularly American , undertake in co-operation with their Libraries . |
| 10 | Well well you , you can advocate erm mutual aid and all these sorts of things which erm which are erm a step towards , I mean I 'm not saying they 're directly |
| 11 | We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something . |
| 12 | They had led to ‘ a stream of anonymous letters , threatening decapitation and all sorts of things which the police took very seriously and were pretty sure came from a disturbed clergyman ’ . |
| 13 | But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else . |
| 14 | When he 's trying to impress you or your family , he may do all sorts of things he would n't dream of doing after the wedding . |
| 15 | A pair of pliers : Pliers are a real jack-of-all-trades tool — they 'll grip all sorts of things you may be trying to undo or tighten up , bend things like stiff wire or metal sheet , and crimp wires together if you 're doing any electrical work . |
| 16 | You do not need to list everything you own , but it will help if you know what sorts of things you have . |
| 17 | Yes so they they say you know there 's all sorts of things you do farms and you get into the country and you do land as well but I reckon ninety eight percent of of their people are doing houses so |
| 18 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |
| 19 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 20 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 21 | the , the erm , there are tents and all sorts of things you said they were comparatively new , erm because remember that big |
| 22 | all sorts of things you can |
| 23 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 24 | All sorts of things I did n't know how to eat . |
| 25 | So , those are the sorts of things I take it that , that er we do think are a more interesting way of individuating people than their bodily . |
| 26 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 27 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 28 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 29 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 30 | Well I mean the erm , I had some bins and all stuff , buy some bins and stuff for the office , she 's ordered all sorts of things I , I had , I , I |