Example sentences of "sort of [noun] out " in BNC.

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1 And it 's the same t squeezing boils and all sorts of things out of other people you know .
2 So then John , he tries all sorts of things out , you know doughnuts and things like that and it 's a thermostatically controlled
3 But although there was so much to be done , the indefatigable Breeze found time to collect holly and evergreens from the lanes inland , and made all sorts of decorations out of odd scraps of coloured paper .
4 I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do .
5 It 's a different sort of life out there , to some extent .
6 ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’
7 His book starts , for instance , by making a sort of sense out of a nonsense letter of Lear 's of 1862 and proceeds from there , through a rag-bag of examples , towards a theory of the Remainder which now becomes central rather than marginal , or at least just as central as the rules of Langue .
8 ‘ Some sort of to-do out there , ’ he said .
9 I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned .
10 Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there .
11 Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours .
12 He probably would get a sort of wages out of it but er running I would imagine would be for nothing .
13 Erm do you think it would be an idea if we made a sort of table out of this ?
14 It 's a sort of block out
15 Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure .
16 The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers .
17 I did n't ever seem to get the same sort of satisfaction out of getting something to balance properly as I did out of seeing a patient recover , which was something you 'd helped them to do .
18 Right , what I want to do now is just hand out , before you press any other keys , sort of hand out some some sheets on er critical values .
19 Is it possible Geoffrey Hoskin to have some sort of sort out , where people could be encouraged , compensated perhaps to leave their villages and towns and go back to the Republic from which their parents or grandparents originally came ?
20 She 's got a trolley basket and a couple of placky bags full of stuff and she 's made a sort of seat out of them so she 's real comfy like .
21 The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead .
22 Ca n't you simply leave that sort of thing out ?
23 Obviously they thought that by letting this sort of thing out they would have an excuse for putting him away if he ever attempted to call their bluff , " Ha ! " they would be able to say , " Crazy ; read too much SF .
24 ‘ I wish you would n't say that sort of thing out loud , ’ Schellenberg said gently .
25 My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill
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